Jockey Junior Alvarado was fined $62,000 and suspended 2 days for using his riding crop too many times during his Kentucky Derby ride on Sovereignty.

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

There will be no Triple Crown winner in horse racing this year. Sovereignty, the three-year-old thoroughbred who won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, will not race in the Preakness Stakes – the second leg of the three races that make up the Triple Crown.

Modern racehorse isn't built to run three long races in five weeks. Credit trainer Bill Mott for putting the health of Sovereignty first.

The debate over the dates of the Triple Crown will pick back up now that the Kentucky Derby winner is skipping the Preakness.

Loving and serving God does not always guarantee victory or other forms of worldly success. Partly because we often learn more from defeat than triumph. But we’re told in Psalm 37:4, “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Sometimes that even means being able to lift the championship trophy in Victory Circle.