{"id":368421,"date":"2025-08-23T23:51:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368421\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:51:32","slug":"sovereignty-wins-the-156th-running-of-the-travers-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368421\/","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":368422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[128947,121678,20449,128946,128948,128944,38147,12,1071,99989,128945,80663,79,14,16,15,51682],"class_list":{"0":"post-368421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-capital-region","12":"tag-central-ny","13":"tag-hudson-valley","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-racing","17":"tag-rochester","18":"tag-saratoga-racing","19":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115080769284880359","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368421","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=368421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}