Silent Fallon back in action

Kieren Fallon was keeping quiet at Salisbury this afternoon as the media circus paid a visit to the track in the wake of his arrest in connection with a race-fixing investigation.

Silent Fallon back in action

Kieren Fallon was keeping quiet at Salisbury this afternoon as the media circus paid a visit to the track in the wake of his arrest in connection with a race-fixing investigation.

The champion jockey refused to make any comment about yesterday’s events, in which he was held at Bury St Edmunds police station and subsequently bailed.

By the time of the first race, a considerable crowd had grown around the weighing-room building to see Fallon make his return to riding action.

There was a polite round of applause and cries of encouragement as he made his entrance into the paddock.

Clerk of the course Jeremy Martin arranged for security staff to flank Fallon in and out of the weighing room, pre-empting the possibility that he might be intercepted.

With other members of the groundstaff team called up to provide further support, Fallon had all the protection he could have wanted from the prying eyes of the many camera crews dotted around the paddock.

Most reporters were forced into interviewing racegoers as a substitute for grabbing an interview with the main man.

Martin, not exactly relishing the extra workload placed on him on one of the course’s busiest days of the year, tried to act as go-between, but to no avail.

“I’m afraid, as I expected, he’s got nothing to say,” Martin said. “He just wants to get on with the day.”

Fallon was out of luck on his first ride, on Golden Fury in the Whitsbury Manor Stud EBF Novice Stakes, finishing unplaced.

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