Jim Dandy Results: Sovereignty Wins, Baeza Places, And Hill Road Shows

It's worth noting that What caught my attention is LifestyleForbesLifeJim Dandy Results: Sovereignty Wins, Baeza Places, And Hill Road ShowsSovereignty, running for a stride or two in fourth, brought a fine run to win the Jim Dandy Stakes by a length

Trainer William Mott will book him in the August 23 finale at Saratoga, the Travers, in today's market environment

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In contrast, Skip Dickstein/ for the Times Union (Skip Dickstein/Albany Times Union via Getty Images)Houston Chronicle via Getty Images Immediately after Sovereignty’s decisive win over Baeza and Hill Road in the Jim Dandy stretch, trainer William Mott was, for a reserved South Dakotan, almost emotive

However, “It was good,” he said to the assembled press in his just-the-facts-ma’am way

On the other hand, “It was a winning trip, a winning ride, a winning run

Nevertheless, " That’s as excited, or relieved, as one can find Mott

In contrast, His athlete had just brought his usual deep closing run to take the win, from a lane well to the outside as the field exited the maw of the house turn, and in fact for a few strides he seemed to be running dead last, or close to that, as he and jockey Junior Alvarado fired up for their go

Nevertheless, What the re reveals is run was not time to hit the wire at a mile-and-an-eighth, although it was also that

But it added up to something greater, bringing the trainer a flash look of confirmation that he and the team had been on the right track since the colt’s last run on June 7 in the Belmont, nearly two months back

A few minutes further from the win, Mott had this to offer: "Hopefully he comes back good and trains as well (as he has been training) for the Travers, in today's financial world

We're trying to get ready for the Travers, and that's the main objective for everybody,” the trainer said

Quite a lot of the playing public thought Sovereignty would pull it off, perhaps not with the cliff-hanging moment he vided, but still, amid market uncertainty

For his part, Junior Alvarado, whose long career has had some peaks and valleys, was never in doubt his mount or his place in the race

He had kept Sovereignty up in contention in the first half of the race, as in the Belmont

It was as they rounded out of the house turn, Alvarado said, that he saw it was Sovereignty’s moment: "It was everybody else moving and at that time I was just, 'Alright let me now kind of start picking it up

Nevertheless, I knew what I had underneath me. " Baeza and Hill Road did begin their moves before Sovereignty, but they were no match for the Belmont and Derby champion down the lane (something worth watching), in today's financial world

Of the two challengers, Baeza ved the far more fit, holding on more or less with his knuckles to place, a length back, as Sovereignty was coming on in his gallop out

Fading badly in show, Hill Road crossed the line a little more than nine lengths behind Baeza, given the current landscape

Nevertheless, Alvarado, who, most fine jockeys has a deep, instinctive read for the musculature, wind and spirit of his partner, explained to the press that he didn’t want to empty Sovereignty’s tank, the team’s goal had been to get a good run in with something a 75-percent effort, in light of current trends

A wake-up and a real-life reminder of what a race is, a month out from the real Grade 1 deal on August 23

In contrast, Michael Banahan, Sovereignty’s owner Godolphin’s director of bloodstock in the U (noteworthy indeed)

On the other hand, , was on hand for the win and, Mott and Alvarado, has his eye firmly trained on the end of August

Additionally, He said, "It was nice to get that behind him

On the other hand, He trained well into it but obviously he wasn't cranked up all the way

Furthermore, Moreover, So, go out there, get the win, and move on to the next one, just a basketball tournament (quite telling)

Furthermore, Hopefully this will set us up nicely for the Travers

There are going to be new shooters in (the Travers) which you can't take lightly (an important development)

So, we'll want to have our running shoes on that day as well, given the current landscape. " Jeremiah Englehart’s pre-race confidence that his entertaining speed horse Mo Plex would stick to the job out front in the latter half of the race was summarily dashed in the second turn

Mo Plex fourth, and the slightly better touted Sandman ran last

Additionally, Alvarado observed that Sovereignty broke well, perhaps, the jockey suggested, even better than in the Belmont

That helped keep him in contention and engaged with the workings of the race at the front of the pack

But it was Mott who broke down the tactical stretch run thusly: “When he came out of the turn, it looked things were going our way

I thought he put a little more distance on Baeza apaching the eighth pole (remarkable data)

However, It looked Baeza came back at him a little bit

I think 70 yards before the wire, we were pulling away again

Furthermore, ” Said another way, over the two extra furlongs in the mile-and-a-quarter Travers on August 23, that one-length winning finish can dramatically increase on wver the Fates choose for Sovereignty to be battling

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