Fallon focusing on future
AS he surveys the state of the sport he has gripped for the best part of three decades, from a vantage point closer to the end than the beginning, the jockey who attracts headlines like a magnet is hardly in pipe-and-slippers mood.
Far from it. Others in his position, after years in which the duels on the turf itself, galvanising thoroughbreds to perform to the outer realm of their ability, proved the easiest battles of all compared to those elsewhere, may choose to slip quietly into the twilight years of their careers.