Kentucky Derby jockey Junior Alvarado is fined $62,000 and suspended for rule violations. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Junior Alvarado, Kentucky Derby winning jockey, was recently fined a total of $62,000 and suspended two racing days for riding rule violations.

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.

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