There won't be a Triple Crown winner this season with Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty bypassing the 2025 Preakness Stakes because his connections wanted to give him extra recovery time before the Belmont Stakes in June.

This will be the final horse race at the track ahead of demolition and a major reconstruction project, which will impact Pimlico and the surrounding Park Heights neighborhood.

With the announcement that Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty will not compete in the Preakness Stakes comes an opportunity for a potential runner-up from that race to compete for a victory in the second leg of the Triple Crown in Baltimore.