Horseracing: Fallon heads for all-weather
Champion jockey Kieren Fallon will ride in six races on the all-weather track at Wolverhampton on St Stephen's Day.
Fallon, who regained his title from previous champion Kevin Darley by riding 166 winners during this year’s Flat campaign, has been riding in Japan recently.
He will ride four-year-old filly Top Of The Class for trainer David Evans best known for his exploits with the remarkable mare Madame Jones in the first division of the betdirect.co.uk Handicap.
His next mount is three-year-old filly Theatre Lady, also for Evans, in the second division of that race and he then partners two-year-old colt Tiger Feet, trained by Alan Berry, in the Bet Direct Tax Free Betting Claiming Stakes.
Fallon rides three-year-old gelding Young Tern for trainer Clive Cox in the Chemipetro Christmas Cracker Maiden Stakes and five-year-old entire Invader for Clive Brittain in the Littlewoods Bet Direct Handicap.
He resumes his partnership with Evans when riding four-year-old gelding Indian Sun in the Littlewoods Bet Direct Daily Special Offers Selling Stakes.
Fallon, whose season was cut short last year when he severed the main artery in his left arm causing serious nerve damage to his shoulder in a fall at Royal Ascot, has had a rollercoaster year since returning to action.
He won the Sagitta 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on Golan and the Coral Eurobet Eclipse Stakes at Sandown as well as regaining his title but lost his retainer with Sir Michael Stoute.
He was later replaced by Johnny Murtagh on Golan in the Japan Cup, when the colt finished sixth.
