The jockey of the Kentucky Derby-winning horse Sovereignty has been fined $62,000 for using his riding crop too many times.

Junior Alvarado, who rode Sovereignty to victory in last weekend's Kentucky Derby, has been fined $62,000 and suspended two ...

Sovereignty is the second horse in the past four years to win the Kentucky Derby, but skip the Preakness Stakes. Rich Strike did the same thing after winning the 2022 Kentucky Derby. Rich Strike ...

There will be no Triple Crown winner in horse racing this year. Sovereignty, the three-year-old thoroughbred who won the ...

Junior Alvarado was fined 20 percent of his winnings for striking Sovereignty more times than is allowed with his riding crop ...

Sovereignty is not running out of that starting gate in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, two weeks after winning the ...

Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty is not running in the Preakness Stakes and that means for a fifth time in the past seven ...

He previously worked as a digital news producer at several local news stations up and down the West Coast. The jockey who ...

Ifurhappynuknowit (lot 30) topped the auction when knocked down for $280,000 to Denali Stud. From the consignment of Knowles ...

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About five weeks ago, Junior Alvarado was heartbroken. The 38-year-old jockey from Barquisimeto, Venezuela, fractured his ...

There will be no Triple Crown in 2025 as Kentucky Derby-winner Sovereignty is skipping the Preakness Stakes.