Three-year-old colt Sovereignty, listed at 9-1 odds at post time, won the 151st Kentucky Derby in 2:02.3 on a rainy Saturday at Churchill Downs, thundering down a sloppy track that coated every horse and jockey in mud.

You don't get that in the business very often." Sovereignty ran second that day, and true to his word, Mott gave Alvarado the call for the Kentucky Derby. "It means the world to me," said Alvarado, who was congratulated by more than half the other riders in the field after the gallop out on Churchill Downs' backstretch.

Sovereignty’s Kentucky Derby victory in the muck at Churchill Downs sparked curiosity over whether the colt can build on his signature win over a possibly drier, faster surface on the Triple Crown tra