{"id":41202,"date":"2025-05-11T14:45:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/alvarado-banned-and-fined-62000-for-overuse-of-whip-in-kentucky-derby-win\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T14:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:45:33","slug":"alvarado-banned-and-fined-62000-for-overuse-of-whip-in-kentucky-derby-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/alvarado-banned-and-fined-62000-for-overuse-of-whip-in-kentucky-derby-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvarado banned and fined $62,000 for overuse of whip in Kentucky Derby win"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Jockey rode Sovereignty to victory in famous race<\/li>\n<li>Fine is 20% of winnings for victory at Kentucky Derby<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Junior Alvarado, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/03\/kentucky-derby-winner-sovereignty-journalism\">who rode Sovereignty to victory<\/a> at last weekend\u2019s Kentucky Derby, has been fined and banned for overuse of his whip during the race.<\/p>\n<p>The jockey was found to have used the whip \u201cmore than the permitted amount\u201d the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) said on Saturday. Under HISA regulations, jockeys are allowed to strike their horse six times during a race; Alvarado used the whip on Sovereignty eight times. It was his second such offense in the last 180 days, meaning his fine was doubled to $62,000 \u2013 20% of his winnings from the Kentucky Derby.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/11\/alvarado-banned-and-fined-62000-for-overuse-of-whip-in-kentucky-derby-win\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jockey rode Sovereignty to victory in famous race Fine is 20% of winnings for victory at Kentucky Derby Junior Alvarado, who rode Sovereignty to victory at last weekend\u2019s Kentucky Derby, has been fined and banned for overuse of his whip during the race. The jockey was found to have used the whip \u201cmore than the &#8230; <a title=\"Alvarado banned and fined $62,000 for overuse of whip in Kentucky Derby win\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/alvarado-banned-and-fined-62000-for-overuse-of-whip-in-kentucky-derby-win\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alvarado banned and fined $62,000 for overuse of whip in Kentucky Derby win\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}