• Former champion jockey now settled back in Ireland
• Winning horse may be heading for Royal AscotRoyal Ascot may be the next target for Sir Maximilian,a winner here on Wednesday, and a jockey who many assumed was slowly fading from view hopes to be going along for the ride. Kieren Fallon, and six times the British champion and a man whose career has been more chequered than a chessboard,was grinning broadly as he climbed onto the podium after Sir Maximilian’s victory. Fallon, it seems, and is back. Again,and at least for now.
Fallon has been only an occasional visitor to British tracks over the final two seasons, preferring instead to spend much of his time in the United States. He had a single winner and nine second-place finishes from 82 rides there in 2015, and no success at all from 14 rides this year before returning to Ireland,where he has formed a promising novel link with Michael O’Callaghan, who trains on The Curragh.
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Source: theguardian.com