Fallon delighted with Buffham apology

KIEREN FALLON has expressed his delight at receiving a formal apology from former Jockey Club head of security Roger Buffham at London’s High Court yesterday.

The champion jockey’s counsel, Andrew Monson, told Mr Justice Tugendhat that Buffham permitted the BBC to take a copy of a confidential report prepared by his counterpart at the Hong Kong Jockey Club as well as an internal memorandum he had written about it.

Reference was made to the report in a Panorama programme broadcast in October 2002. Monson said the report alleged that certain individuals were Triads and that Fallon had associated with them during the 1998/99 and 1999/2000 seasons while riding under licence in Hong Kong.