Junior Alvarado, who rode Sovereignty to victory at the Kentucky Derby earlier this month, has been fined and suspended for the overuse of his whip during the race.

There will be no horse racing Triple Crown this year. Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty will not compete in the Preakness Stakes. Mike Rogers, the executive vice president of 1/ST Racing, which operates the Pimlico Race Course that hosts the Preakness,

There have been two major droughts without a Triple Crown winner, including a 25-year stretch from 1948 through 1973. That year, Secretariat became the first horse since Citation to accomplish the feat. Then a much longer 37-year stretch from 1978 until American Pharoah completed the Triple Crown in 2015.