Murtagh takes over as Fawn storms to victory

KIEREN FALLON, who took a fall from Eagle Mountain in a Group 1 at Longchamp on Saturday night, missed the ride on the brilliant Peeping Fawn, among others, in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh yesterday.

Fallon had a stiff neck and also complained of stomach cramps. His place on Peeping Fawn was taken by ice-cool Johnny Murtagh and she toyed with the opposition on her way to an emphatic victory.

For Fallon it was yet another disappointment, in a career which has often been littered with them.