'TOUGH' CHAMPION QUEST FOR FALLON

Kieren Fallon feels time could soon be running out in his quest to be crowned champion jockey a seventh time.

Fallon is currently fourth in the jockeys' charts, but, even with Ryan Moore injured, the 46-year-old feels the sustained challenge of Paul Hanagan and Silvestre de Sousa could be too powerful.

He said: "I'm trying my best, but the boys up north, I don't know why it is, they're riding a lot more winners than 15 years ago.

"Paul's riding doubles or trebles every day, De Sousa the same thing.

"Down here it's very hard to ride trebles and four-timers, whereas them boys up there seem to be doing it much easier.

"At the end of this week, I thought I'd be a lot closer but Paul's ridden trebles two days on the run.

"If I don't get close in the next couple of weeks, it's going to be tough," Fallon told the Guardian.

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