K.FALLON........only one ride at newmarket tomorrow

6 more at Kempton tomorrow evening but agree surprising he has not picked up anything else in the earlier races at HQ

The last thing the sport needs right now is KF being crowned champion jockey.

To be fair Blackwater, I think the possibility of KF being crowned champ is the least of the problems the game has.

Fair point

Fallon has said he finds a full book of rides at HQ very demanding, physically, because of the distance you have to travel to and fro for each race. So, i assume the rides he could have had in the other races were not the best, and instead of just taking them he has opted to conserve his strength for the evening.





Or not He's a law unto himself

Fallon has said he finds a full book of rides at HQ very demanding, physically, because of the distance you have to travel to and fro for each race. So, i assume the rides he could have had in the other races were not the best, and instead of just taking them he has opted to conserve his strength for the evening.

Lol ... "it's a cracker!"

Fallon’s expertise on Britain’s diverse tracks is widely acknowledged and he has lost none of his guile. He was masterly in winning a race for Godolphin at Epsom last Sunday, guiding his mount away from the rail to avoid the adverse camber in the home straight. But he is banking on the tight Wolverhampton polytrack course to assist him most in his challenge.

“My winning percentage is very good at Wolverhampton. I’m seldom out of the first three there. I get good rides and it is an easy track physically. It’s not far to the start, you ride in the race, and you go back and weigh in. It’s easy.

“But take a course as big as the Rowley Mile at Newmarket. You use up a tremendous amount of energy just getting a horse to go steady to the start. The easiest part is the race itself. If, say, you had a full book of rides at the Cesarewitch meeting, you would be covering 20 miles during the day, down to the start and galloping back. It is physically demanding.”. 

I've said it before: Wolver is a nice, easy track.

looking at the diary says 16 racing days left. No Flat 23rd & 30th.

It's physically a lot more demanding for Fallon because he's usually one of the first to start pushing and one of the last to go for the whip. He's also giving about 15 years away in age to his two main rivals now too.

Ima_mazed will explain in detail the reasons,I know but in the interests of security will leave it to ima to explain.[;)]

Incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's time to give up when you can't do it 100% anymore, the same thing happened with me and my paper round back in the day, time waits for no man unfortunately

Has it changed so much since Sunday BM?

You can only change gear on your bike seven times during the round now and there's no xmas bonus if you only push the paper half way through and it gets wet

If anyone thinks he still can't do it any more then you only have to watch a replay of his win today on Regal Gold to see otherwise.

Make your mind up ima,making excuses/reasoning in your first post and contradicting (ish) in your next.Tbh I thought you were talking about BMs paper round until you threw the horse in.[;)]

I'm suggesting it's more physically demanding for Fallon due to his riding style of pushing from a long way out and going for his whip as a last resort as compared to other jockeys and so it was physically demanding for him 20 years ago too.........both my posts are consistent.

OK,point taken,hes knackered from riding donkeys.

Consistently.[;)]

Btw Ima,I had £200 ew Lupescu ridden by ? on his first ride back.[:D]


What age?

Clue....Black and White colours 20/1

Won the last race at Sandown ridden by Tony Cruz in 199?

CBstg a clue.........

Point being age/fitness.[;)]

Fallon's a lot fitter than your average 46 year old bloke though and again he showed that by pushing home that Hannon winner for 7 of the 8 furlongs.

1991 it was though for Cruz, Cecil and Charles St George before Dettori won on it in its next race when moved to David Loder.