Fallon set to appeal ban

KIEREN Fallon plans to appeal against the 10-day suspension that currently rules him out of the two-day Guineas meeting at Newmarket.
Fallon  set to appeal ban

The six-times champion jockey was found guilty of not riding to the finish aboard Sukhothai in the Racing At skysports.com Handicap at Kempton on Wednesday night.

The James Fanshawe-trained three-year-old finished third, a short head behind runner-up Watered Silk.

Fallon is set to be sidelined between April 27 and May 6 and while he plans to appeal, he does not expect the decision to be reversed.

After guiding Qipco 2000 “The rules are the rules and I was doing my best. I think the second horse would have got me anyway,” he said

* Peter Toole is no longer in a medically-induced coma as he continues to recover from his fall at Aintree on Grand National day. Doctors have taken him off the medication that was keeping him in a coma and are waiting for him to come round naturally.

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