{"id":40564,"date":"2025-05-04T00:28:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T00:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/sovereignty-overtakes-journalism-down-stretch-to-win-151st-kentucky-derby\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T00:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T00:28:24","slug":"sovereignty-overtakes-journalism-down-stretch-to-win-151st-kentucky-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/sovereignty-overtakes-journalism-down-stretch-to-win-151st-kentucky-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Sovereignty overtakes Journalism down stretch to win 151st Kentucky Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Sovereignty outduels favorite down stretch in Louisville<\/li>\n<li>Baeza was third while Final Gambit came in fourth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sovereignty won the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky, in a thrilling fight to the finish line on Saturday to capture the first leg of US thoroughbred racing\u2019s famed Triple Crown.<\/p>\n<p>The bay colt thrived in the wet and sloppy conditions at Churchill Downs to finish the one-and-a-quarter-mile race in two minutes and 2.31 seconds, beating the heavy favorite Journalism down the final stretch.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/03\/kentucky-derby-winner-sovereignty-journalism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sovereignty outduels favorite down stretch in Louisville Baeza was third while Final Gambit came in fourth Sovereignty won the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky, in a thrilling fight to the finish line on Saturday to capture the first leg of US thoroughbred racing\u2019s famed Triple Crown. The bay colt thrived in &#8230; <a title=\"Sovereignty overtakes Journalism down stretch to win 151st Kentucky Derby\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/sovereignty-overtakes-journalism-down-stretch-to-win-151st-kentucky-derby\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sovereignty overtakes Journalism down stretch to win 151st Kentucky Derby\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}