Kieren Fallon

Kieren Fallon is a retired Irish professional flat racing jockey, born in Crusheen, County Clare, who was British champion jockey six times. He became stable jockey to the trainer Henry Cecil in 1997, won his first Classic that May on Sleepytime in the 1000 Guineas, and took his first jockeys' championship that season with 202 wins. In 1999 he won his first Derby on Oath and the Oaks on Ramruma, both for Cecil, before leaving that stable. He then rode as a freelance and later for Sir Michael Stoute, winning the 2000 Guineas twice and the Derby on Kris Kin and North Light. His career was interrupted by a serious arm injury in 2000 and by race-fixing allegations and a trial at the Old Bailey in 2007, which ended when the judge directed the jury to return not guilty verdicts.