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The son of a plasterer he has been the UK's Champion Jockey six times (1997-1999, 2001-2003) and has had seasonal scores of 200 plus winners four times, which include victory in three Epsom Derbys, and has a 20% win rate. He was apprenticed to Kevin Prendergast from 1982 to 1987 and he rode his first winner in 1984 on Picadilly Lord at Navan. Kieren came second in the Irish apprentices table in 1987 and had his first British win at Thirsk on Evichstar in 1987. He moved to the UK in 1988 and started riding for Lynda Ramsden in 1993. In 1997, he was appointed as stable jockey for champion trainer Henry Cecil.Though a legendary jockey; who has earned himself the nickname of 'the assassin' due to his ability to get the job done quickly, quietly and effectively and then getting on his way; he has always found it easy to make his way into trouble. Cecil and Fallon's relationship proved to be a team to be reckoned with in the two and a half seasons they were together but their parting of ways has oft times been alluded to as having occurred due to an alleged affair between the trainer's wife and an unidentified jockey.After they went their separate ways Fallon rode principally for Sir Michael Stoute, but in 2005 Ballydoyle announced that Kieren Fallon was to become their stable jockey, for which they were offering him four times the value of his retainer with Stoute.In 2006 Fallon was charged with Conspiracy to Defraud Betfair Customers, but was found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud customers. In 2007, the day after his race-fixing trial collapsed the news emerged that Fallon had failed a drug test after a B sample tested positive. This was the second time he was to be banned, as he had been banned from riding in December 2006 after testing positive for a prohibited substance at Chantilly. He has had to face a worldwide eighteen month suspension and his job at Ballydoyle went to Johnny Murtagh. He believes however that the ban has, rather than destroyed his career, restored it. He has used the time to get himself together and clean up his act. His suspension ends in September, and it is thought that he will once again aim for the jockeys championship, insisting that he is still capable of riding 200 winners in a season, and would like to prove that his past is behind him by throwing in a couple of Classic winners!So Fallon is still under the watchful eye of the British Horseracing Authority, getting tested twice a week at Newmarket plus having to undergo a random test and counselling. Having been almost three years since he last rode on a racecourse in Britain the former champion jockey is still obviously as deeply involved as ever, and the horseracing world waits with baited breath to see how he does on his return! Article Tags: Kieren Fallon
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