Top horse racing expert reveals picks for 2025 Preakness Stakes horses like Journalism and Clever Again with Sovereignty and Rodriguez not running

Competing for your sport's highest achievement shouldn't be a question, but for horse racing's Triple Crown, it's not that simple.

Sovereignty will skip the second leg of the Triple Crown. He's the first Kentucky Derby winner to skip the Preakness Stakes since Rich Strike in 2022.

Receipts from sale of 98 horses sold total $3,786,000, including horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, broodmares and yearlings.

Not every trainer is convinced bypassing the Preakness is the prudent path to follow with a top 3-year-old colt.

When asked to comment on the claim by India's Ministry of External Affairs which rejected China's continued efforts to rename locations in so-called "Arunachal Pradesh" (China's Zangnan), Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Wednesday that the Chinese government has standardized the names of some places in Zangnan,

However, she said law enforcement agencies must continue their treason investigation into certain Afrikaner organisations for spreading misinformation about white persecution and trying to destabilise South Africa.

US President Donald Trump discussed absorbing Canada into the United States on several occasions in his first Oval Office meeting with Carney last week.