Kieren Fallon retires

[zico20]

A true legend just retired yesterday. The reason was depression, which he has been suffering from for the last three years. He will be sorely missed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/racing/2016/07/04/kieren-fallon-announces-immediate-retirement-from-the-saddle-in/

[fiznow]

The bad boy of English racing but also one of the best and most talented riders. Yes he will be missed.

[KaiserSoze]

Good piece below

Back in the 1990s, the signs of his tempestuous nature were there in suspensions for misuse of the whip against both horses and jockeys, and he was handed a six-month ban for pulling his colleague Stuart Webster off a horse. He would learn to control his temper, but there has always been an intensity brimming beneath the surface.

From an alcohol dependency to two ruinous suspensions for cocaine usage, to the calamity of his sacking by Cecil amid allegations of an affair with the late Newmarket legend's wife, to the unfounded allegations of race-fixing and what might be perceived as acts of professional betrayal, the son of a Crusheen plasterer lacked a smooth finish.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/horse-racing/richard-forristal-legacy-of-a-flawed-hero-will-endure-34856982.html