Horse racing has seen sharp declines in most types of equine musculoskeletal fatalities, but reductions to one particular type of injury— the shoulder fracture—have been less dramatic.

Sovereignty, at 9-1 and with Alvarado aboard, won the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, ...

Though he had worked horses after that ... the newspaper said. Alvarado’s shoulder injury, which left him sidelined for several weeks, came up during a brief interview with NBC reporter and ...