The jockey of Kentucky derby winning horseshoe was sentenced to a fine of $ 62,000 for using his harvest too many times.
The authority of the integrity and safety of horses indicates that jockeys can only strike their horse six times during a race, but Civil servants claim Junior Alvarado struck sovereignty eight times during the May 3 event. Kentucky Derbyheld at LouisvilleThe Churchill Downs hippodrome is The longest sports race for maintenance in the United States The event attracted nearly 150,000 participants this year.
Alvarado now says goodbye to 20% of its total price of $ 310,000. The violation would only be 10%, but it was increased after the agency said it was the second Alvarado offense in the last 180 days.
He will also be suspended for two days of racing later this month, a penalty that was also doubled because of his crimes.
The consequences could however be worse. If Alvarado had struck sovereignty ten times, the pair would have been disqualified from the race.
Alvarado has been penalized nine times for the overuse of driving cultures since 2022, when the rules have been introduced, according to Athletics.
Alvarado declared at the exit of Blood Horse that he “could not follow” the number of strikes he had.
“It's such a big race, there is so much that you have in your mind,” he said.
“When the additional whip occurred, I was right next to the favorite and I needed to do what I had to do at the time,” he added. “After (looking at a replay), I saw that I went, but I didn't have time to think about it. I just wanted to win the biggest American race.”
Sovereignty, a three-year-old foal, beat favorite journalism to win the Kentucky Derby 151st last weekend. He was raised by Godolphin, the racing stable of Dubai The sovereign Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
The sovereignty coach Bill Mott previously won the competition with another horse in 2019.
“This one came in the right direction,” said Mott about sovereignty. “I mean, he did well, he is a big horse, he comes from a great organization and I cannot say enough about the horse and the organization that started it and made it happen.”
Sovereignty will not work in preakness issuesAnother other popular horse race held in Baltimore. It ends all chance in a triple crown, which is awarded to a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes in Elmont, New York.
Mott said Preakness is still ready to enter the Belmont Stakes next month.
