Belmont Stakes: Battle of the champions in Triple Crown’s third leg

By Ben Church, CNN

(CNN) — There may be no Triple Crown at stake this year, but the stage is set for two champions to battle it out in this year’s Belmont Stakes.

The winner of both the Kentucky Derby, Sovereignty, and the reigning Preakness Stakes champion, Journalism, are both set to take part in the final leg of this year’s Triple Crown.

In many ways, it will be a rematch of this year’s Kentucky Derby, where Sovereignty held off the challenge of pre-race favorite Journalism to write his name in the history books of the “most exciting two minutes in sports.”

The decision was made by Sovereignty’s owners to then skip the Preakness, a race Journalism managed to win, in order to focus on this weekend’s Belmont Stakes.

So who is this year’s favorite and what can you expect from the fina