Fallon misses action after fall

Fallon trails Dettori in the jockeys' title race

Champion Flat jockey Kieren Fallon missed the action at Leicester on Tuesday after the racecourse doctor decided he was not fit enough to ride.

Fallon had a crashing fall at the track on Monday and was taken to Leicester Royal Infirmary.

Although he was later discharged and planned to retain his six booked rides for Tuesday, he was stood down by the track's medical officer.

Dr John Charlesworth said: "He wanted to ride, but he knew in himself that he wasn't quite right.

"He has been stood down for today and will have to pass the doctors at Lingfield tomorrow.

"Had he been concussed he would have been stood down for an automatic six days."

Fallon had been hoping to make up ground in the jockeys' title race, in which he trailed Frankie Dettori by 13 winners going into Tuesday.

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Dettori all but clinched the championship on Monday with a treble at Leicester and picked up another winner at the track on Tuesday to go 14 in front.

The Italian jockey has not won the title since consecutive victories in 1994 and 1995, while Fallon has triumphed in six of the last seven years.

Fallon missed out on the 2000 championship, won by Kevin Darley, after suffering a shoulder injury in a fall at Royal Ascot which almost ended his career.

A stewards' inquiry into Monday's incident in a 19-runner fillies' maiden at Leicester found that the fall was caused by Abide accidentally clipping the heels of a rival, lurching left and barging into Fallon's mount, Maritima.

The jockey was catapulted out of the saddle and was then kicked by a horse behind.

"There is nothing broken, though he did have quite a bang on the head," said Pollington.

The following race was delayed for 25 minutes while paramedics treated the stricken jockey, who was reportedly complaining of back pain.

Bookmakers suspended betting on the jockeys' championship, with Dettori an overwhelming favourite to regain the title.