• Veteran jockey will be kept busy this weekend
• 50-year-old wants to win one more GuineasThey played a medley of 80s pop classics before racing here on Friday. The jockey at the centre of attention both before and after the first race is old enough to remember them first time around. “What are you doing back?” an old acquaintance asks on the way past the weighing room. “You know,” Kieren Fallon calls after him, “I was thinking that myself”.
Around 15 hours earlier Fallon was riding at Belmont Park in current York at the finish of a summer spent on a working tour of the States. One overnight flight later he is at Haydock for a single ride, and his first in Britain since May. One of the most successful and talented jockeys of the final 25 years –and certainly,at times, the most notorious – is back, and though he cannot say for certain that he will be here long. Fallon would not be Fallon if he could.
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Source: theguardian.com