Chuck Culpepper

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Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty to skip Preakness, ending Triple Crown bid (washingtonpost.com) Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty to skip Preakness, ending Triple Crown bid By Glynn A. Hill; Chuck Culpepper 2025050617480500 Sovereignty will not race in next week's Preakness Stakes, a Pimlico Race Course executive announced Tuesday, ending the Kentucky Derby winner's bid for the Triple Crown.

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Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty not a sure thing to run the Preakness (washingtonpost.com) Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty not a sure thing to run the Preakness By Chuck Culpepper 2025050416261500 LOUISVILLE — The remorseless drizzle continued its relentless weekend just after dawn Sunday at Churchill Downs, and then it sounded as if the melancholy might drift toward Baltimore.

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Sovereignty reigns in the slop at the 151st Kentucky Derby (washingtonpost.com) Sovereignty reigns in the slop at the 151st Kentucky Derby By Chuck Culpepper 2025050323090300 LOUISVILLE — The decorated career of understated trainer Bill Mott reached another celebrated height Saturday evening, and the long, long hunt of titanic global owner Godolphin reached some roses at last, all because Sovereignty reached a thrilling stretch run in the slop and then won the 151st Kentucky Derby with quite...

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At a Kentucky farm, star racehorses help people fight a monster: Addiction (washingtonpost.com) At a Kentucky farm, star racehorses help people fight a monster: Addiction By Chuck Culpepper 2025050310002900 NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. By the time he trembled in the courtroom at age 41 in April 2024, he had spent 24 years brawling back and forth with the beast of drug addiction, and the fight had hurled him to another brink of dismal.

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For two Kentucky Derby veterans, the glum surprises are part of the race (washingtonpost.com) For two Kentucky Derby veterans, the glum surprises are part of the race By Chuck Culpepper 2025050309450200 LOUISVILLE — One year after the Kentucky Derby reached age 150 and all the numerical ballyhoo therein, here's a No. 151 that feels quieter even with famed trainer Bob Baffert restored to the premises after three years in the Churchill Downs hoosegow for an equine medication infraction. This...