{"id":276012,"date":"2025-07-20T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276012\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:01:19","slug":"didnt-need-him-to-do-any-more-sovereignty-breezes-easy-in-final-work-for-jim-dandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276012\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Didn’t Need Him To Do Any More’: Sovereignty Breezes Easy In Final Work For Jim Dandy"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Didn’t Need Him To Do Any More’: Sovereignty Breezes Easy In Final Work For Jim Dandy<\/a> originally appeared on Paulick Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Godolphin\u2019s dual classic-winning homebred Sovereignty posted his final work Saturday in preparation for next Saturday\u2019s $500,000 Jim Dandy (G2), covering a half-mile in 49.82 seconds over Saratoga Race Course\u2019s Oklahoma dirt training track.<\/p>\n

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The son of Into Mischief, who was last seen winning the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets on June 7 at Saratoga, covered the distance solo under regular exercise rider Neil Poznansky in his fourth work since the Belmont.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looked OK \u2013 the main thing is Neil thought it was good and he looked like he was moving fine to me,\u201d Mott said. \u201cI guess it\u2019s all about what he feels underneath him, and he thought he felt very similar to before he ran in the last race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mott said he was content to let Sovereignty work alone Saturday after working in company with Jefferson Street the last two weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought he had done enough in his last two works,\u201d Mott said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t need him to do any more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Grade 1 Kentucky Derby winner looks to further his case for divisional supremacy in the nine-furlong Jim Dandy, where he will face a strong field that is expected to include Baeza \u2013 the Derby and Belmont Stakes third-place finisher \u2013 and Grade 1 Arkansas Derby winner Sandman, third in the Grade 1 Preakness.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Mott sent out Frassetto Stables\u2019 sophomore Stars and Stripes <\/strong>to a dominant 7 1\/4-length romp here in a nine-furlong allowance against elders, where he swept from seven lengths back in fourth under Jose Lezcano to take the lead in the turn and draw off to victory in a final time of 1:51.22. He was awarded a 90 Beyer Speed Figure for the effort, and entered from a 10 1\/2-length graduation on June 15 going the same distance at Belmont at the Big A.<\/p>\n

Mott said he was pleased the Not This Time colt delivered such a performance despite incurring a minor issue at the start.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe impressive thing is he grabbed himself pretty good leaving the gate, too,\u201d Mott said. \u201cI\u2019ve got to wait for that foot to heal up first before we decide [what is next]. He gouged himself pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A $100,000 purchase at the 2023 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Stars and Stripes is out of the unraced Quality Road mare Pearl River, who also produced Grade 3 winner Waves of Mischief. His second dam, Ain\u2019t She Sweet, is a full-sister to multiple graded stakes-winning millionaires Life Is Sweet and Sweet Catomine.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Paulick Report<\/a> on Jul 19, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Didn’t Need Him To Do Any More’: Sovereignty Breezes Easy In Final Work For Jim Dandy originally appeared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[32580,91577,104229,1071,74580,31619,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-276012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-belmont-stakes","9":"tag-jim-dandy","10":"tag-neil-poznansky","11":"tag-racing","12":"tag-saratoga-race-course","13":"tag-sovereignty","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114882627691468832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}