Kieren Fallon Banned from Racing
Former champion jockey Kieren Fallon has been banned from racing for 18 months following a failed drugs test.
The suspension from the French racing authority France Galop follows a positive B sample after Myboycharlie’s win at Deauville in August 2007.
The news that Fallon, 42, had tested positive for a banned substance, believed to be cocaine, emerged the day after his race-fixing trial collapsed.
Fallon was acquitted of conspiracy to defraud at the Old Bailey in December.
The Irishman appeared before officials from France Galop on Wednesday after failing the test on 19 August when he won the Group One Darley Prix Morny on Myboycharlie.
In November 2006 he was given a six-month worldwide suspension by France Galop, for testing positive for a metabolite of cocaine (produced by the body after it has processed a chemical) after a race in July that year but returned to action in July 2007 at Tipperary.
The 18-month ban is due to start early next month and will run until August 2009 but Fallon will appeal against the suspension.
Source: BBC.
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