Fallon given doping ban
2008-01-25 21:24
Paris - Six-times champion jockey Kieren Fallon has been suspended from racing for 18 months after testing positive for a banned substance, a French horse racing official said on Friday.
"Fallon has been suspended for 18 months," Henri
Pouret, the head of French horse racing authority France Galop's rules department, told Reuters.
Irishman Fallon, who appeared before France Galop officials
on Wednesday, has lodged an appeal which is pending, said
Pouret, adding that no date had been set.
Fallon, cleared of race-fixing at the Old Bailey last
month, tested positive for a banned substance at Deauville,
France in August last year. He has already served a six-month
ban after another positive doping test in France in 2006.
- Reuters