Derby winner Sovereignty was set as the Belmont Stakes second choice on the morning line at odds of 2-1 and drew the No. 2 post. Journalism, near the outside with the No. 7 post, is the only horse running in all three Triple Crown races.

“He’s been kind of the same horse since July of last summer,” trainer Michael McCarthy said. “He does everything you’d ask a good horse to do: He eats well, trains well, acts well. I thought through the last six, seven weeks here, his energy’s been the same throughout.”

Sovereignty is back after owners and trainer Bill Mott opted to skip the Preakness and run the Belmont on five weeks of rest, and things have gone swimmingly since he arrived at historic Saratoga Race Couse.

“We’ve been very lucky with everything that’s gone on sine he’s been here,” Mott

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