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Sovereignty wins the 2025 Belmont Stakes
By Jacob Lev, CNN
Updated:
7:48 PM EDT, Sat June 7, 2025
Source: CNN
Sovereignty, the 2025 Kentucky Derby winner, won the 157th running of
the Belmont Stakes in Saratoga Springs, New York, on Saturday.
The Godolphin-owned 3-year-old – who came into the race as the 5-2
favorite – narrowly beat the other favorite and Preakness Stakes
winner, Journalism, by a margin of three lengths.
The win means Sovereignty has won two legs of horse racing’s Triple
Crown. The horse’s team made the call after the Derby to not enter
Sovereignty into the Preakness last month and instead focus on the
Belmont.
Baeza took third place – the same 1-2-3 as the Kentucky Derby last
month.
Sovereignty jockey Junior Alvarado called his first wins at two of the
most prized races “surreal.”
“There was a point in my career, maybe five or six years ago, I could
see everything fading away to be honest. And here I am,” Alvarado
told the Fox broadcast. “… My family always my rock, big
supporters. Helped me through tough moments in my life.”
A now two-time Belmont Stakes winner and Sovereignty’s trainer, Bill
Mott, said the decision to stay out of the Preakness “turned out
good.”
“If we wouldn’t have won today, we would have taken a lot of
criticism,” Mott said. “It turned out good. Sometimes you make the
right decision and a lot of times you make the wrong ones. But today,
it really worked out well.”
The Triple Crown hasn’t been won since 2018, when Bob Baffert’s
Justify won the 105th Belmont Stakes to achieve the vaunted feat.
It was the second consecutive year Saratoga Race Course hosted the
Belmont Stakes due to renovations being done to Belmont Park. The race
is expected back in Elmont, New York in 2027.
This story has been updated with additional reporting.
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