Overview

• Sovereignty dominated the five-horse Travers Stakes in 2:00.84, with Bracket Buster second and Magnitude third.
• The win made him the first since Thunder Gulch in 1995 to capture the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes and Travers.
• Hall of Famer Bill Mott secured his first Travers victory on his 14th attempt, as jockey Junior Alvarado called the colt “the horse of a lifetime.”
• Mott said the colt came out of the race well and will remain at Saratoga to train up to the Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar.
• Godolphin’s Michael Banahan described the Classic as the “next logical spot,” capping a campaign that helped deter several rivals and produce a small Travers field.