Virtually any keen racing enthusiast will know of Kieren Francis Fallon and his auspicious achievements in the horse racing world. Born on 22nd February 1965 in Crusheen – Ireland, the retired flat racing supremo is an unmistakable memory etched in the annals of horse racing history. A British Champion Jockey on six occasions, very few names in the racing world can outstrip that of Kieren Fallon.
Kieren Fallon apprenticed himself to a renowned stable jockey called Henry Cecil – one of the foremost British trainers at the time. Riding his trainer’s horse Sleepytime, Fallon attained a classic victory taking the 1000 Guineas in 1997, thus launching a triumphant foray into the highly competitive racing arena.
After the spectacular 1997 classic triumph, Kieren Fallon retained the Jockey’s Championship for two consecutive years. In each of these prosperous years, he rode well over hundred times. Indeed, and as Henry Cecil had previously said of him, Fallon was a winner at heart before he even set foot on the race course.
Steadily building success upon success, Kieren Fallon won his first Derby title riding the Cecil trained Oath, before later clinching going for a repeat at the Oaks on Ramruma – also belong to the apparently fortunate Henry Cecil stable. Eventually Fallon left Cecil parted ways, with rumours of a fallout, that sports publications failed to ever get to the bottom of.
