{"id":76280,"date":"2025-08-18T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76280\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:03:10","slug":"belmont-jim-dandy-winner-is-travers-stakes-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76280\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmont, Jim Dandy winner is Travers Stakes favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 156th running of the Travers Stakes is now less than a week away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the draw, Sovereignty is the favorite in the small field of five. He&#8217;s won at Saratoga before, having prevailed earlier this year in June&#8217;s Belmont Stakes and last month&#8217;s Jim Dandy. Sovereignty\u00a0also won the Kentucky Derby this year.<\/p>\n<p>A win for Sovereignty would be trainer Bill Mott&#8217;s first Travers Stakes win. Junior Alvarado will be the jockey.<\/p>\n<p>Sovereignty drew the fourth post; he&#8217;s joined in the field by Magnitude on post one, Bracket Buster on post two, the Chad Brown-trained Strategic Focus on post three and McAfee at post five.<\/p>\n<p>In all, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyra.com\/saratoga\/racing\/entries\/?day=2025-08-23&amp;limit=entries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">14 races are on the card<\/a> this Saturday, starting at 11:10 a.m. Gates open at the Spa at 9 a.m.; the Travers Stakes is Race 13 on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 156th running of the Travers Stakes is now less than a week away.\u00a0 Following the draw, Sovereignty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[39053,39052,50,3004,39050,39051,101,47,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-76280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-capital-region","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-saratoga-racing","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}