Sovereignty, the Kentucky Derby winner, is back for the final race of the Triple Crown season and will face stiff competition.

The track at the old Belmont Park was a mile-and-a-half oval, the only one of that length in the country and one perfectly suited to the Belmont Stakes’ 12 furlongs (a furlong is an eighth of a mile).

A Triple Crown is not on the line on Saturday at Saratoga, but the winners of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes are entered into the eight-horse field. Journalism, the Preakness winner, is the favorite,