{"id":98290,"date":"2025-08-28T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98290\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:37:35","slug":"sovereignty-wins-jim-dandy-in-thrilling-comeback-at-saratoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98290\/","title":{"rendered":"Sovereignty wins Jim Dandy in thrilling comeback at Saratoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 26, 2025, 09:52 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. &#8212; Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes champion Sovereignty rallied after losing position heading into the final turn to win the $500,000 Jim Dandy by a length at Saratoga on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ridden by Junior Alvarado, Sovereignty ran nine furlongs in 1:49.52 and paid $3 to win as the 1-2 favorite against four rivals, the smallest field of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott said Sovereignty would be pointed toward the $1.25 million Travers on Aug. 23 at the upstate New York track.<\/p>\n<p>Approaching the turn, there were a few tense moments as it appeared Sovereignty was retreating when losing position to the advancing Baeza and deep closers Sandman and Hill Road, leaving Sovereignty in last for a few strides.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado said he never had a doubt that Sovereignty would come up with his expected run.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was everybody else moving and at that time I was just like, &#8216;Alright let me now kind of start picking it up,'&#8221; Alvarado said. &#8220;I had 100% confidence. I knew what I had underneath me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Baeza, third to Sovereignty in both the Derby and Belmont, finished second. Hill Road was another 9\u00bc lengths back in third. Mo Plex was fourth and Sandman fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 26, 2025, 09:52 PM ET SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. &#8212; Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes champion Sovereignty rallied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-98290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98290","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=98290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}