HORSE RACING - Kieren Fallon, widely regarded as the greatest jockey of his generation, has claimed there is an extensive drug problem within horse racing, paticularly at the home of British racing at Newmarket. Fallon has overcome his own problems with drugs and recemtly returned to race riding after seeing out an 18-month ban for a second failed drug test. In an interview with the BBC programme Inside Sport, Fallon says: "Newmarket has the highest rate [of drug use] for its population in any town in England. I don't know what can be done. I've done something and I'm all right."Fallon is a six-times champion jockey who has battled personal demons over the years and been inolved in numerous controversies, ranging from hitting fellow jockey Stuart Webster to his recent drugs ban. Fallon's comments about drug abuse in Newmarket might sound like they belong in a Dick Francis novel, but Fallon is not the first to make such claims. For example, the suicides in 2005 of three stable staff in Newmarket were linked to alcohol and drug abuse andled to the establishment of the Newmarket Racing Partnership, funded in the main by the Racing Welfare charity.
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