Fallon eager to make an instant impact

Kieren Fallon is determined to make an instant impact by getting among the winners as he resumes his riding career today.

The six-time champion takes the first competitive steps to restoring his battered reputation at Lingfield where the eyes of the media will be focused on him.

The 44-year-old has been absent from British racecourses since July 2006 due to a combination of the Old Bailey trial into alleged race-fixing, which ended in the judge ruling there was no case to answer, and an 18-month drugs suspension imposed by the French authorities.