'I've Been Treated Like a Terrorist,' Says Fallon

Kieren Fallon claimed yesterday that he felt that he was being "treated like a terrorist" after he was arrested in a dawn raid on Wednesday morning by police investigating allegations of race-fixing.

Fallon returned to the saddle at Salisbury less that 24 hours after being released on bail after several hours of questioning.

He was met by a media scrum when he arrived at the course and, though he refused to talk to reporters during racing, he later released a statement through his solicitor which was relayed via a presenter on the satellite station Racing UK.

According to this statement, Fallon insists that he has done nothing wrong and that the police will find no evidence to assist their case on his home computer, which was among items seized for examination.

The jockey claims that he "cannot even work" the computer and that "it is only there for the kids".

Fallon arrived at the track yesterday in a silver Mercedes driven by a minder and made his way into the weighing room through a back entrance. He stared straight ahead as he walked out to ride Golden Fury in the opening race and acknowledged neither the journalists nor the scattered cries of support from a large crowd of racegoers who had also gathered outside the weighing room.

In the race Golden Fury, the 5-1 third-favourite, led in the early stages but faded in the last two furlongs to finish fourth of the five runners.

Fallon's five remaining mounts were also beaten; he is shown here leaving the weighing room to ride Highland Diva. But the fact that two of these were saddled by his principal employer, the champion trainer Sir Michael Stoute, suggested that for the moment at least Fallon's job with the yard is safe.