Junior Alvarado has filed an appeal of the fine and suspension he received for his ride on Sovereignty in the 2025 Kentucky ...

Jockey Junior Alvarado was fined $62,000 and suspended 2 days for using his riding crop too many times during his Kentucky ...

A hard fall in March left jockey Junior Alvarado with an injured shoulder, but the Venezuelan put it behind him with the ride of a lifetime in the Kentucky Derby.

Jockey Junior Alvarado has filed an appeal of the fine and suspension levied for excessive crop usage during his victorious ride in the Kentucky Derby on May 3 at Churchill Downs. The Horseracing ...

"Number one, my regular rider, Junior Alvarado." To have had him pilot Sovereignty to victory, Mott felt, made it even sweeter. Another member of that team is ownership group Godolphin, LLC.

Junior Alvarado, who rode Sovereignty to victory at the Kentucky Derby earlier this month, has been fined and suspended for the overuse of his whip during the race. Alvarado was found to have used ...

Jockey Junior Alvarado was injured and couldn’t ride Sovereignty in his last prep race for the Kentucky Derby.Alvarado suffered a fractured shoulder in a spill on March 23 at Gulfstream Park and ...

WITH MORE DETAILS ON THE RULING. KENT. WELL, VICKI AND RICK, BLOOD-HORSE REPORTING THAT SOVEREIGNTY’S JOCKEY, JUNIOR ALVARADO, HAS BEEN FINED $62,000 AND SUSPENDED FOR TWO RACING DAYS.

Less than two months before the Kentucky Derby, jockey Junior Alvarado was praying ... a legitimate shot this year with his horse Sovereignty. Alvarado wasn’t sure if he would ever get an ...