Saratoga Notebook: Sovereignty Takes Next Step Toward Summer Goals

Saratoga Notebook: Sovereignty Takes Next Step Toward Summer Goals

SARATOGA SPRINGS–When Neil Poznansky, sitting on the back of GI Kentucky Derby and GI Belmont Stakes champion Sovereignty (Into Mischief), saw jockey Junior Alvarado early Friday morning, he wore a wide smile. “How'd I do?” Poznansky said. Alvarado grinned back. No answer necessary. Sovereignty did what Poznansky, Alvarado and Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott wanted to see as he had his second work since winning the Belmont last month. Working in …

The tab: Fierceness, Sovereignty lead 42 graded winners

Fierceness worked Friday for the first time since his runner-up effort in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Mile. The 4-year-old City of Light colt breezed four furlongs in 48.72 seconds on the main track at Saratoga for trainer Todd Pletcher, 14th fastest of 80 at the track and distance. Second in last year's Breeders' Cup Classic, Fierceness opened the year with a win in the Alysheba (G1) before finishing second to Ragig Torrent in the Met Mile. Also w…

Sovereignty works well in preparation for Jim Dandy

Following a slow workout last week that may have been more a byproduct of track condition than anything else, Sovereignty, the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner, picked up the pace Friday morning, working a half-mile in 48.68 seconds over the Oklahoma training track in preparation for an expected start in the Grade 2, $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes here on July 26.