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SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK – JUNE 07: Sovereignty with Junior Alvarado up wins the 157th running of the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on June 07, 2025 in Saratoga Springs, New York. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) Getty Images Surging in the last furlong, Sovereignty handily put Bracket Buster ten lengths behind him at the wire to take the 156th running of the Travers Stakes at Saratoga on Saturday. For its part in Sovereignty’s shockingly dominant spring and summer campaign, Saratoga’s supposedly dream-busting track served only to cement the winner’s sheer dominance of his division. Ten lengths back, Bracket Buster held on to second, and the somewhat warmly touted second-favorite, Magnitude, finished in show, a breathtaking 20 and three-fourths lengths behind Sovereignty. Comparisons of any horse to Secretariat are difficult at best, but Sovereignty’s winning margin against the field were Secretariat-like. It was as if there were two races being run; one run by Sovereignty, and the second run by the remaining four. Magnitude’s trainer Steve Asmussen bit through his disappointment to observe in a most sporting manner that Sovereignty’s talent was generational. The race was Sovereignty trainer William Mott’s first Travers win. SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – JUNE 8: Sovereignty gets some relaxation time in his stall in trainer Bill Mott’s barn at the Oklahoma Training Track after his win in the 157th running of the The Belmont Stakes during the Belmont Festival at the Saratoga Race Course Sunday June 8, 2025 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein/Albany Times Union via Getty Images) Houston Chronicle via Getty Images Magnitude had come down from the 2-1 morning line by post time to go off at 7-2, but Bracket Buster, who went off at 17-1 to place, pleased his trainer Victoria Oliver by stepping smartly out of the pack to challenge…

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