Solicitor says Fallon's B sample is positive

LONDON - Six-times champion jockey Kieren Fallon has had his positive drugs test confirmed by a B sample, his solicitor said on Monday.

"I had a letter at the weekend that confirmed the positive findings," Fallon's solicitor Christopher Stewart-Moore was quoted as saying on The Times Web site.

"The letter tells me that the Medical Commission wish to meet in January to consider the case. I have instructed our French legal counterparts to request all the relevant data before we decide on our next step."

Fallon, cleared of race-fixing at the Old Bailey earlier this month, tested positive for a banned substance at Deauville, France in August. He has already served a six-month ban after another positive doping test in France last year.

Now his B sample has been confirmed as positive the 42-year-old Fallon could face another 18 months out of action.

Fallon won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Dylan Thomas in October, the day before the start of his trial along with five other men, including two fellow jockeys.

The case collapsed when the trial judge said that Australian racing steward Ray Murrihy, the prosecution's main witness, was no expert on British racing.