Sovereignty Installed as Favorite in Breeders' Cup Classic

Notebook: Fever could keep Sovereignty out of Breeders’ Cup; Juvenile race shrinks

DEL MAR — It was late Monday afternoon when Bill Mott’s assistant phoned with the news no trainer wants to hear. Our horse has a fever. Not just any horse, but the headline horse of 2025: Sovereignty, winner of the Kentucky Derby, Belmont and Travers, the heavy favorite for Horse of the Year and the 6-5 morning-line pick in Saturday’s $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar. “As of right now, there’s a possibility that he won’t make the race…

Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty spikes a temperature putting Breeders’ Cup run in doubt - The Mirror

The hot favourite for the Breeders' Cup Classic developed a fever after exercising on the track at Del Mar on Monday and will be monitored over the next days

Sovereignty installed as favorite in Breeders' Cup Classic

Racing fan seem to agree that Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic field is one of the best ever assembled, and here are the results of Monday's draw.

Breeders’ Cup Saturday: Fields, posts, jockeys for 9 races

It came as no surprise that Sovereignty, already the top choice in futures markets, would be the morning-line favorite for the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. The same goes for two-time winner Rebel’s Romance in the $5 million Turf. The two horses who will have center stage on the track Saturday at Del Mar were the stars of the Breeders’ Cup draw show Monday in the track paddock. Sovereignty got post 6 in the 10-horse lineup and morning-line o…

Breeders' Cup Clocker: Sovereignty has easy breeze under snug hold

Anyone who came out expecting to see Sovereignty lay down a bullet work in final preparation for the Classic may have been sorely disappointed, but his connections certainly were not after the number one attraction for this year's Breeders' Cup breezed an easy, maintenance-like half-mile shortly after dawn Monday at Del Mar.