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No vendetta says BHA as Fallon is given all-clear10 December 2007LONDON, England -- As reported by The Guardian: "The British Horseracing Authority yesterday sought to distance itself and its senior staff from the investigation and trial of the jockeys Kieren Fallon, Fergal Lynch and Darren Williams, which collapsed at the Old Bailey yesterday. The BHA also said it 'totally refutes' any suggestion that it waged a vendetta against Fallon, the six-times champion Flat jockey. "During the trial, Paul Scotney, the BHA's head of security, was forced to deny that he had made a drunken boast at a social gathering that he was determined to 'get Kieren Fallon' if it was the last thing he did. "...Paul Struthers... was also keen to stress that while the Jockey Club, as it then was, had made an initial complaint to the City of London force, subsequent events had been out of the BHA's hands..." |