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Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty wins the Belmont Stakes, beating Journalism once more

By Editorial Board Published June 8, 2025 8 Min Read
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Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty wins the Belmont Stakes, beating Journalism once more

There are two issues that may assist make a sport widespread: dynasties and rivalries. Horse racing is immune from dynasties as a result of the game is constructed principally round breeding, which is the place the cash is. However, after Saturday’s 157th operating of the $2 million Belmont Stakes, it definitely has a rivalry, if just for one 12 months.

The winners of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes attached in a much-anticipated rematch of the Kentucky Derby with the identical end result — Sovereignty operating down Journalism in deep stretch to etch his identify in historical past because the 52nd winner of two legs of the Triple Crown.

Sovereignty’s three-length win leaves lots of people asking “what if” Sovereignty had run within the second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness, and gained. He would have been the 14th winner of the Triple Crown, though with an asterisk.

Each the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes have been run at 1¼ miles as a result of Belmont Park is present process a rebuilding venture forcing the race to maneuver to Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The New York Racing Assn. opted to run the Belmont at 1¼ miles as an alternative of the standard 1½ miles so the race wouldn’t begin on a flip.

However that technicality didn’t dampen the spirits of Sovereignty’s coach, Invoice Mott, after the race.

“I think there are three really good horses and I’m glad he was able to come back and put in a race like he did in the Derby,” Mott mentioned. “If we wouldn’t have won today, we would have taken a lot of criticism, but it turned out good. Sometimes you make the right decision and a lot of times you make the wrong ones, but today it really worked out well.”

Mott, and the colt’s proprietor Godolphin, determined that operating in Belmont was the higher transfer. It allowed Journalism, second within the Derby, to run and win the Preakness in a race for the ages, the place he bulled his method by horses on the high of the stretch and ate up unbelievable floor within the last furlong to win by half a size. And a rivalry was born.

Sovereignty was the primary horse to deliberately skip the Preakness after profitable the Derby after which come again and win the Belmont. It was the primary time within the final 22 Triple Crown races that there was a repeat Triple Crown race winner, a streak going again to Justify in 2018. The Triple Crown is restricted to 3-year-olds, that means a horse solely will get one 12 months to compete in these races.

Sovereignty crosses the finish line ahead of Journalism to win the Belmont Stakes on Saturday.

Sovereignty crosses the end line forward of Journalism to win the Belmont Stakes on Saturday.

(Seth Wenig / Related Press)

The race ran just about to type with Rodriguez going instantly to the entrance with Crudo shut by as they headed into the primary flip. However because the horses went down the backstretch Journalism began to get engaged with Sovereignty shut by. Getting into the homestretch, Journalism poked his head in entrance as Rodriguez began to sluggish. Sovereignty was working his method to the skin of Journalism and with 200 yards to go moved swiftly to the entrance and gained simply.

The highest three finishers have been precisely the identical because the Derby with Baeza ending third. He was adopted by Rodriguez, Hill Highway, Coronary heart of Honor, Uncaged and Crudo. Journalism, Baeza and Rodriguez are all presently based mostly at Santa Anita.

Sovereignty paid $7.00 to win.

After the race, profitable jockey Junior Alvarado and Umberto Rispoli, who rode Journalism embraced whereas atop their horses.

“It’s about two great horses,” Alvarado mentioned. “[Journalism] ran amazing again for coming back after the Preakness. He fought very hard but he didn’t make it easy for my horse.

“It’s unreal to be honest. There was a point in my career, I think probably four or five years ago when I kind of saw everything fading away, to be honest. And now here I am. It’s unbelievable.”

It was Alvarado’s first Belmont Stakes win. It was additionally his first Kentucky Derby win, though he was fined $62,000 and suspended two days for utilizing his using crop eight instances on Sovereignty, two over the allowable quantity.

The race was run on what was labeled both quick or good after rain pelted the observe all morning. It even resulted the suspending till Sunday of two Grade 1 turf races for security causes. The observe and Equibase, the official statistician of racing, wouldn’t have to agree on the standard of observe surfaces.

“Look, anytime good horses get space in between their races, they are very, very dangerous,” mentioned Journalism’s coach Michael McCarthy. “He [Sovereignty] is a very good horse, he trains up here, he’s been up here for a while, he’s in his backyard. Let’s hope everybody stays happy and healthy, and we’ll see him in Del Mar hopefully in November, in our backyard. I can’t say enough good things about that horse or about my horse. It has been a fantastic experience for me and my guys.”

Jockey Junior Alvarado, center, holds up the August Belmont Trophy after riding Sovereignty to victory in the Belmont Stakes.

Jockey Junior Alvarado, middle, holds up the August Belmont Trophy after using Sovereignty to victory within the Belmont Stakes.

(Jessica Hill / Related Press)

McCarthy didn’t rule out operating within the Travers at Saratoga later this summer time.

Journalism appeared to have stumbled popping out of the gate however Rispoli dismissed it as a cause for the loss.

“[It was a ] perfect trip,” Rispoli mentioned. “I was lucky to be on the outside today to take the chance. I would say he had a little bit of a stumble coming out of the gate, but I don’t think it would’ve been an excuse that affected anything.

“I had a good trip. I was running down the lane, Junior [Alvarado] was just coming by, easing past, so the only thing I can say is probably the freshness. He [Journalism] is a warrior, he ran in three legs. He [Sovereignty] ran in one and had five weeks to recover, but that’s no excuse. Obviously, I would say the fresh horse won, but he’s a great horse, he beat me already. He beat me twice.”

The rivalry might not be Affirmed and Alydar or Dodgers-Yankees or Lakers-Celtics. But it surely’s the very best horse racing has needed to provide in a couple of years and that’s one thing to be aware of.

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