In 2019, trainer Bill Mott's Country House was named Derby winner after a disqualification. But watching Sovereignty cross the wire first was better.

Sovereignty was one of three horses with wins at Churchill Downs on the résumé, joining Owen Almighty and Render Judgment. (Owen Almighty ran fifth Saturday.) After he broke his maiden by five lengths in the Street Sense last Oct. 27, Sovereignty was put on the shelf until his win by a neck over River Thames in the Fountain of Youth.