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This year’s Kentucky Derby-winning jockey, Junior Alvarado, rode Fort Washington to a victory as 2024 Kentucky Derby winner ...
Juddmonte’s Kentucky homebred Spiced Up made his stakes debut a winning one with a fiery late turn-of-foot under Junior ...
Junior — his legal first name after his parents listed it as Junior Rafael Alvarado on his birth certificate — came to the U.S. in 2007 as a bug boy (apprentice jockey).
In this continuing series, TDN's Senior Racing Editor Steve Sherack catches up with the connections of promising maidens to ...
Hindered at the start and helped at the end, when it counted the most, Quiet Street (Street Boss) launched her career Wednesday with a victory in the finale at Saratoga Race Course. The chart shows ...
Perhaps Junior Alvarado had an inkling things were about to go his way. Because he insisted to his wife that she bring their three children to Louisville, Kentucky for the Derby.
It was Junior Alvarado Day, in recognition of the Garden City Park jockey who won this year’s Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes on his colt Sovereignty, due to a proclamation by County ...
Racetrack announcer Frank Mirahmadi shares his routine before calling a race at Saratoga Race Course and Santa Anita Park ...
Born in Venezuela, Junior Alvarado is the son of a jockey and has become one of the premier jockeys in the sport himself as five weeks ago, he helped propel Sovereignty to victory at the Kentucky ...