JOCKEYS are not obliged to do what trainers tell them to do before races, a steward told the Old Bailey trial of Kieren Fallon yesterday.

A trainer today described one of the jockeys in the £2m (€2.87m) race-fixing trial as "talented".

PROFESSIONAL gambler Miles Rodgers was suspected of having more than a dozen secret accounts with an internet betting firm, the Kieren Fallon trial was told yesterday.

Champion jockey Kieren Fallon is due back in the saddle at Salisbury today, after his arrest yesterday in connection with a race-fixing probe.

Joe Fanning, fresh from riding a treble at Haydock Park on Saturday, followed up with a 1,070-1 double at York to take his tally for the season to 59.