Junior Alvarado secured his first Triple Crown win on the First Saturday in May, but he’s going to have to pay for his Kentucky Derby performance. The jockey was aboard Sovereignty when Bill Mott’s talented three-year-old outdueled Journalism in the mud down the Churchill Downs stretch to win by 1.

Jockey Junior Alvarado has been suspended for two days and fined $62,000 for excessive use of crop during his ride on Sovereignty at the Kentucky Derby.

The stewards' ruling details that Alvarado struck Sovereignty eight times with his crop, twice above the HISA limit of six