Fallon rides out the storm

IN September of 2004, the racing world was rocked when Kieren Fallon was among a number of people detained as part of a police investigation focusing on suspicion of corruption within the sport and race-fixing.

On October 8 of this year, Fallon and five co-defendants were brought to trial; yesterday the agony finally ended when the case dramatically collapsed.

Fallon, who began his career in the early 80s apprenticed to Kevin Prendergast at the Curragh, is a man who has courted controversy all his life.

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