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So many moons ago I’d done a Lucky 63 over two days for the Deauville summer meeting. The Saturday went great three or four winners. The Sunday moved on in a positive direction until the last race.
The Prix Morny. Fallin was riding at the time still and I needed Natagora the beautiful grey filly who won the 1000 Guineas the same weekend as HenryTheNavigator (a name I loved) the year after.
She gave her best but was bestest by Falllon’s mount that day.
Driving to work I read the Post which was still affordable back then £1 or £1.10 to learn that Fallon had tested for Chokebrain.
What was the horse that he ride that day that the test screwed him and me from getting the Totes bonus?
MyBoyCharlie! :D
The Prix Morny. Fallin was riding at the time still and I needed Natagora the beautiful grey filly who won the 1000 Guineas the same weekend as HenryTheNavigator (a name I loved) the year after.
She gave her best but was bestest by Falllon’s mount that day.
Driving to work I read the Post which was still affordable back then £1 or £1.10 to learn that Fallon had tested for Chokebrain.
What was the horse that he ride that day that the test screwed him and me from getting the Totes bonus?
MyBoyCharlie! :D
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Excuse the mistypes, you get the drift, sometimes we cry, sometimes, most times we have to laugh!
Be lucky and I’d love to hear any true stories…. |
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Have some names been concealed to protect witness anonymity and/or have some scenes been fictionalised for dramatic effect?
 Quite apart from that please put us ignorant ones out of our misery. What is the significance to this erstwhile take if “MyBoyCharlie? Please.  |
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tale of. Not take if.
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Love that Delashay
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No in names changed! I used to get winning bets printed out by the Tote and later Betfred. Stopped using Cooks because they wouldn’t do it!
Charlie is street slang for the marching powder put up your nose. Well Fallon’s in that case, the horse’s name made me learn irony I think! The slips I’d kept in a book but the ink fades. They weren’t big prices but I couldn’t sleep that night for the excitement of getting them all. |
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Fallon must have laughed his nuts off! Being banned after that ride. I think it didn’t come in until after he’d won the Arc on Dylan T.
Funny the delays in court are worse than the Underground! (For some) |
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Cheers. Hope you’ll allow the naievity.
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Was Fallin or Falllon riding when he bestest the filly? Thanks for telling all these geezers on here what 'charlie' and marching powder mean. Reading your post, reckon you've had a happy afternoon.
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I’m happy I never got involved with Charlie, and, if that makes meâ€a geezer on here†I’ll take it.
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I see we have another who gets irritated by honest mistypes! The text is small and I type as fast as someone on the ‘ole Lemmon Barley! Add that to your list with the Choke Brain!
It’s just rich man’s Wizz (speeeed) Loyal so you haven’t missed much and saved a few quid. It makes people talk crap and they become a bore. Happy to answer your question. |
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Fallon faces ban after failed drugs test, say lawyers
Just a day after his trial for race-fixing collapsed at the Old Bailey, the jockey's positive test puts his racing career in renewed doubt Former champion jockey Kieren Fallon was embroiled in fresh controversy last night when it emerged that he had failed a drugs test just 24 hours after his race-fixing trial collapsed at the Old Bailey. Fallon, 42, tested positive for a banned substance believed to be cocaine after riding Myboycharlie in the Group One Prix Morny at Deauville in August, his lawyers confirmed yesterday. The six-times champion rider faces an anxious wait for the results of a second test. It would be his second offence and would bring an 18-month ban. The racing pundit John McCririck described the news as "devastating" for Fallon after he was exonerated in the race-fixing trial. The jockey's solicitor, Christopher Stewart-Moore, said: "I can confirm the story is true, but it is a matter we are dealing with together with France Galop, the French racing authority, and it is something we are not able to comment on." He declined to confirm reports that the B sample had also proved positive for a banned substance. Sources close to the jockey confirmed that the drug for which he had tested positive was cocaine. However, they questioned the accuracy of the test, saying Fallon had tested positive for pure cocaine, which they said was unusual as cocaine normally shows up as a metabolite of the drug when it is broken down by the body. Fallon previously had a six-month suspension imposed by France Galop for testing positive for a metabolite of a prohibited substance in June 2006. In 1994, he was fined for trying to pull another jockey off his horse after a race at Beverley. He was also banned from racing for six months. In 1998, he was accused of "cheating" in a race. Fallon sued and won 70,000 in damages. Off the track, he was implicated in a scandal after his trainer Henry Cecil's wife Natalie admitted having an affair with a married man. Fallon, who was married at the time, denied the allegations, but lost his job in 1999 as Mr Cecil's stable jockey. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/racing/fallon-faces-ban-after-failed-drugs-test-say-lawyers-763950.html |
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Real nice guy another who stunk out the game and should have been exiled not employed.
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Thanks Delashay.
BTW, total tangent but, Crowley still as good as ever in a finish. Cathedral Peak. Yar. 4.40. |
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Cheers man I missed it as don’t have RTV and only really bet in the big races. Hope you were on. Oh and it was a good afternoon yesterday!
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Well done.
He just put another one in. I only watch on here. Decent service really. |
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I avoid handicaps and have little time to watch anything but the group and listed races Loyal. I particularly enjoy the international racing scene.
Like to compare form and see how it all matches up. |