Junior Alvarado, who rode Sovereignty to victory in last weekend's Kentucky Derby, has been fined $62,000 and suspended two racing days for striking the horse more times than is allowed, horse racing authorities said on Saturday.

In total, 13 horses have won the Triple Crown, which consists of winning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes in the same year. Justify was the most recent to win the Triple Crown in 2018. American Pharoah's 2015 Triple Crown victory in 2015 broke a 37-year drought dating to Affirmed's run in 1978.

Sovereignty, the winner of the 2025 Kentucky Derby, will not race in the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore next week, meaning there will not be a Triple Crown winner for the seventh year in a row.