Career
A native of Santiago Chile, Alvarez began riding there at age sixteen, winning with his very first mount. The following year he went to Panama where he rode for seven years before emigrating to the United States. In 1964 Fernando Alvarez rode Roman Brother to a second-place finish in the third leg of the United States. Triple Crown series, the Belmont Stakes.
Alvarez followed up on his victories in the Santa Anita Derby and the Stepping Stone Purse at Churchill Downs that gave him his first ever mount in the Kentucky Derby in which he finished eighth.
Fernando Alvarez died on June 27, 1999 at age sixty-one. He was living in Azusa, California at the time of his death.
