Kieren Fallon: 'I was arrested for something I didn't do - it was ridiculous'

Hands up. This interview with Kieren Fallon kicks off with a confession. Just in case you start getting over-excited, it's not from him, but me.

The somewhat flawed reason for the meeting is an anniversary. It is 25 years since Fallon first became Britain's champion Flat jockey. Also now a quarter of a century in the past is the Newmarket afternoon when one of the most outrageously gifted riders of his or any generation made a belated Classic breakthrough in the 1,000 Guineas.

That famous triumph on Sleepytime came early in his tenure as stable jockey to the then yet-to-be-knighted Henry Cecil, the opening name in a triumvirate of training legends who called Fallon their number one. There would later be Sir Michael Stoute and Aidan O'Brien. There would be much more besides, plenty that was good but also a torrent of bad, including an Old Bailey race-fixing trial, drugs bans, alcohol problems, tabloid front pages and serious injury.