Jim Dandy, Sovereignty and Belmont Stakes
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Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner Sovereignty returned from a seven-week rest and cruised to a comfortable one-length decision in the Jim Dandy (G2) at Saratoga, setting himself for the $1.25 million Travers on Aug.
Sovereignty remains the only horse to have defeated Preakness winner Journalism and brought his record to five wins from eight starts, with his sole defeat this year coming when second to Tappan Street in March's Florida Derby.
Sovereignty wins 2025 Kentucky Derby on a sloppy Churchill Downs track. Saturday’s running of the Kentucky Derby was the first to take place on an off track since 2019, when Country House won ...
Sovereignty, son of Into Mischief and Crowned, won the Kentucky Derby at 7-1 odds. Trainer Bill Mott earned his second Derby win, the first being the controversial 2019 victory with Country House.
Journalism — the horse that emerged as Sovereignty’s rival on the Triple Crown circuit this year — won last week’s Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park. Journalism ran second to Sovereignty in the Derby and Belmont, and won the Preakness, in which Sovereignty didn’t run.
With a successful prep race in the books, the Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner will continue to train at Saratoga toward the August 23 'Mid-Summer Derby' with his trainer hoping for breakthrough vict