Junior Alvarado, the jockey who rode Sovereignty to victory at the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby earlier this month, has been issued a suspension and ordered to pay a hefty fine for ...

The jockey who rode Sovereignty to victory at the Kentucky Derby last week has been fined over $60,000 for striking the horse with his riding crop too many times during the race, according to the ...

According to Ben Morse of CNN, Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Junior Alvarado was fined $62,000 after it was discovered he had whipped the winning horse eight times during the race.

The Kentucky Derby is arguably the most famous horse race in the United States. The Run for the Roses is competed over one mile and a quarter miles for horses aged three-years-old only. First staged ...

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Lukas died on the evening of June 28 at age 89. He was hospitalized in Louisville last week after a severe MRSA blood infection caused significant damage to the thoroughbred trainer's heart, digestive ...

After a runner-up finish in his first try in a grade 1 stakes, Amerman Racing's homebred Test Score will be hoping for some July 4  fireworks in the $750,000 Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes (G1T) ...

Before turning to thoroughbreds, Lukas trained quarter horses, and he became the first person to enter both the Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse Hall of Fame. He is the only trainer in Derby history who ...

No Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty in Preakness highlights some philosophical horse racing changes “The whip rule was the last thing I had in my mind,” he said.

Junior Alvarado, the jockey who rode Sovereignty to victory at the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby earlier this month, has been issued a suspension and ordered to pay a hefty fine for excessive… ...