Top racing steward questions why winning Fallon lost race

AUSTRALIA’s chief racing steward told the Old Bailey yesterday he could not understand why six-times champion jockey Kieren Fallon lost a race that he had been winning.

Ray Murrihy said he had viewed film of the controversial race in which Ballinger Ridge lost after having a huge lead.

He said there was no reason why Fallon, who had a “commanding lead” with only a furlong to go, had slowed down and “given an easy passage” to the horse that overtook him.