Kentucky
Kentucky Derby-winning Jockey Junior Alvarado to appeal fine, suspension from HISA per report
Preakness 2025 race won’t include Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty
After Sovereignty’s win at the Kentucky Derby, horse racing handicapper Ed DeRosa talks about future of the Triple Crown and Preakness Stakes 2025.
Jockey Junior Alvarado is appealing his fine and suspension given to him by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority. Alvarado’s agent, Mike Sellitto, said the ruling is under appeal, according to Byron King of Bloodhorse.com reporting.
Alvarado was fined $62,000 and suspended two days as the result of excessive crop use during his winning ride on Sovereignty in the Kentucky Derby on May 3 at Churchill Downs.
HISA ruled Alvarado used his crop eight times on Sovereignty, when the rule is that jockeys may use their crops no more than six times.
The penalty is 10% of the jockey’s earnings from the race — which would be $31,000 for the Kentucky Derby — and a one-day suspension. Since this was Alvarado’s second violation in the last 180 days, his penalty was doubled.
On Courier Journal columnist C.L. Brown’s podcast, Alvarado said, “I forgot it was a rule. … I was seeing my dream coming true right in front of me. The whip rule was the last thing I had in my mind. I have to pay the consequences, I guess.”
Sovereignty will not run in the Preakness on May 17 and is expected to return for the final leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont on June 7 at Saratoga.
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FREEBURN, Ky. (WCHS) — A two-vehicle crash injured one person on Friday morning in Pike County, Ky., troopers said.
The crash was reported around 10:15 a.m. on State Highway 194 East in the Freeburn area of the county, according to a press release from Kentucky State Police.
Troopers said a preliminary investigation indicates that a pickup truck was heading eastbound on State Highway 194 when it rear-ended a tractor-trailer that was stopped due to construction on the road.
The driver of the pickup truck was airlifted to a trauma center to treat injuries, according to troopers. Troopers did not reveal whether or not the tractor-trailer driver suffered injuries.
The release said the crash remains under investigation.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) – The former senior advisor to Gov. Andy Beshear has been appointed to the Kentucky State Fair Board.
Rocky Adkins was among three appointees announced on Friday.
The other two are Brent Tolle of Taylorsville and Jimmy England of Hardyville.
The former state representative from Catlettsburg stepped down from his role in the Beshear administration on July 10 and has a major announcement scheduled for July 21.
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- Rocky Adkins leaves Gov. Beshear’s administration
His term on the fair board will run until June 28, 2029.
Tolle and England’s terms will expire on July 16, 2028.
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