who won the kentucky kentucky derby

The winner of the 2025 Kentucky Derby was Sovereignty. Sovereignty won the race on a muddy track at Churchill Downs on May 3, 2025, finishing the 1¼ mile race in 2:02.31. The horse was ridden by jockey Junior Alvarado and trained by Bill Mott, marking Mott's second Derby win. Sovereignty edged out the favorite, Journalism, by about 1.5 lengths. This victory was also the first Kentucky Derby win for the owner, Godolphin, led by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The race featured 19 horses, and despite poor weather conditions, attendance was reported at 147,406 spectators