After yesterday’s Belmont Stakes, there is no doubt who the best three-year-old in the country is: Sovereignty. The horse made it look easy in the Belmont Stakes, quietly stalking mid pack before launching down the final stretch to defeat Journalism by three. For an instant, Journalism took the lead coming out of the far turn but Sovereignty took up the challenge to defeat his rival once again in a thriller. The program had the tri-fecta and superfecta horses among its top three and top four selections. Sovereignty likely benefited from the five week layoff whereas Journalism was handicapped with only three weeks turnaround from the Preakness Stakes, a race in which he went all out to win coming from behind at the wire.
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