Kentucky Derby-winning jockey fined, suspended for excessive riding crop use on Sovereignty during race

Kentucky Derby-winning jockey fined, suspended for excessive riding crop use on Sovereignty during race

The jockey who rode Sovereignty to victory at last weekend’s Kentucky Derby has been issued a fine and suspension for striking the 3-year-old colt with his riding crop an excessive amount during the race. Jockey Junior Alvarado was given a $62,000 fine and suspended two upcoming racing days at Churchill Downs for violating the rules…

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America's oldest-running distillery, still reeling from historic floods, reopens in time for the Kentucky Derby

America’s oldest-running distillery, still reeling from historic floods, reopens in time for the Kentucky Derby

Frankfort, Kentucky — For more than two centuries, the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfurt, Kentucky, has bottled up scores of spirits on its 400-acre campus. But America’s oldest-running distillery ground to a halt last month amid historic and deadly flooding, when Buffalo Trace master distiller Harlen Wheatley says the nearby Kentucky River rose to over…

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