{"id":88397,"date":"2025-08-23T23:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/88397\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:15:17","slug":"sovereignty-wins-the-156th-running-of-the-travers-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/88397\/","title":{"rendered":"Sovereignty wins the 156th running of the Travers Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sovereignty, who won the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes this year, wins the 156th running of the Travers Stakes\u00a0at Saratoga Race Course.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first horse since\u00a0Justify\u2019s\u00a0Triple Crown\u00a0win in 2018 to win two legs of the Triple Crown.<\/p>\n<p>Sovereignty defeated the rest of the five-horse field, passing Bracket Buster down the stretch to win the race by 10 lengths.\u00a0It was the first Travers victory for jockey Junior Alvarado.<\/p>\n<p>Sovereignty is the fifth horse to win the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes and Travers, joining Twenty Grand (1931), Triple Crown winner Whirlaway (1941), Shut Out (1942) and Thunder Gulch (1995).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sovereignty, who won the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes this year, wins the 156th running of the Travers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[39053,34269,42870,39052,44332,44329,9640,50,3004,44331,39050,39051,101,47,56,54,55,44330],"class_list":["post-88397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-app-sports","tag-buffalo","tag-capital-region","tag-central-ny","tag-hudson-valley","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-rochester","tag-saratoga-racing","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88397","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=88397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}