Posts tagged Kieren Fallon
Kieren Fallon hopes to come back fast and furious
Dec 23rd
Kieren Fallon signed off for the year with a treble at Lingfield Park yesterday but the former champion jockey is already thinking about next season. In March the Irishman had set his sights on regaining the jockeys’ championship that he has last won in 2007 but it was never a realistic possibility after a slow [...]
Spensley for hat-trick at Kempton
Nov 28th
James Fanshawe’s yard has been worth following this autumn as the stable has been hitting some good form. A strike-rate of 29% for October has been nearly matched this month – albeit with only a handful of runners and Spensley can win the Office Christmas Parties At Kempton Park Handicap. To read the full blog: [...]
Aidan O’Brien’s new stable jockey?
Nov 10th
It is one of the hottest tickets in town, but just do not bank on it lasting that long. For all his quiet demeanour, Aidan O’Brien seems to have a habit of losing stable jockeys and is looking for his fourth in six years after Johnny Murtagh handed in his notice. Given that the yard, [...]
Casamento wins Racing Post Trophy
Oct 23rd
Irish trainer Michael Halford savoured the biggest moment of his career knowing that he horse who had provided his first Group One winner had run his last race for him. Casamento led a clean sweep of Irish-trained runners in the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster but will be running for a new trainer next season. [...]
Brian Meehan looks to Titus Mills for big finish
Oct 20th
There may have been times when Brian Meehan thought that time was running out for him this season. The Manton-based trainer has won at least one Group One race in five of the last six years but a slow start and some near-misses mean that he may have only one roll of the dice left. [...]
Kieren Fallon ready for State Visit to Yarmouth
Oct 19th
Selling races may be the bargain basement of the game but all winners count for a man like Kieren Fallon. The former champion jockey has been back in top form since an admitted loss of confidence in mid-season, with 55 winners since the beginning of August. Amy Weaver has provided two of Fallon’s winners this [...]
Fury wins Tattersalls Millions 2YO Trophy
Oct 2nd
The saying is that money cannot buy happiness; it just makes misery far more bearable. The opening two races on Newmarket’s Cambridgeshire card did not carry the prestige tags of Pattern class but the size of the cheques on offer to the winners more than made up for the missing black type cachet. To read [...]
Temple Meads wins Mill Reef Stakes
Sep 18th
Patience can be an underused tool when it comes to horses but it paid off with Temple Meads who won the Group Two Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury. First Ed McMahon decided not to run in the Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster last week, believing that the five furlongs was too short, [...]
Kieren Fallon reaches century
Sep 7th
The original prize may be so far out of sight that it barely registers on the horizon but Kieren Fallon has been learning many things this year. Things like how to ride tracks that he had rarely seen since he first quit British racing to ride for Aidan O’Brien and then was denied the right [...]
Poet’s Voice wins Celebration Mile
Aug 28th
There are plenty of ways to win a race – and almost as many in which to lose one. A year ago Frankie Dettori and Saeed bin Surror came away from Goodwood after Delegator had won the Group Two totesport.com Celebration Mile with a feeling of mission accomplished which lasted all the way until his [...]
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