Bob Baffert, a six-time Kentucky Derby winner, made his return to Churchill Downs on Saturday after a three-year absence.
Race favorite Journalism made a massive push at the end, but Sovereignty with jockey Junior Alvarado pushed ahead and fended off the morning favorite with a thrilling home stretch.
Second-favorite Sovereignty has won the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby Sovereignty, who entered the day at odds of 5-1, clinched 'The Run for the Roses' in the mud Jockey Junior Alvarado won his first ever Kentucky Derby and a prize of $3.1million Trainer Bill Mott has won his second Derby after doing so with Country House in 2019 After being nose-to-nose for a good stretch of the final furlong, Sovereignty began pulling away late to take the crown for himself.