Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Sovereignty will make his return to the races Saturday in the $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. The three-year-old male division leader will head a field of just five going nine furlongs in the traditional prep race for the “Mid-Summer Kentucky Derby”,

Journalism — the horse that emerged as Sovereignty’s rival on the Triple Crown circuit this year — won last week’s Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park. Journalism ran second to Sovereignty in the Derby and Belmont, and won the Preakness, in which Sovereignty didn’t run.

Flattered by Journalism’s victory in the Grade 1 Haskell last weekend, Sovereignty makes his return against just four others in Saturday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Jim