Overview

• Sovereignty crushed a five-horse Travers field by about ten lengths at Saratoga, with Bracket Buster second and Magnitude third.
• Bill Mott earned his first Travers victory at the 14th attempt, and jockey Junior Alvarado called Sovereignty “the horse of a lifetime.”
• The sweep of the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes and Travers is the first since 1995, underscoring the colt’s dominance of the three-year-old division.
• Connections cited the Breeders’ Cup Classic on November 1 as the logical next stop, setting up a possible rematch with Preakness winner Journalism.
• Post-race updates showed the Godolphin colt recovering calmly, with a handler video of him grazing the morning after the race.