Kieren Fallon has been granted a four-and-a-half month licence to ride in Hong Kong next winter, it was announced by the Hong Kong Jockey Club yesterday.

Last winter, he made a big impact there when he rode 23 winners in a three-month spell and the HKJC have now extended his term as a club jockey with his appointment beginning on November 1st and continuing through until March 15th.

Theoretically this could mean that Fallon leaves for Hong Kong before the end of the current turf Flat season on November 6th.

Darryll Holland will be on the sidelines for 31 days from today after contravening the riding rules again at York yesterday. He was found to have been guilty of careless riding aboard Now Look Here in the second race. His mount hampered Fearby Cross coming into the straight. The stewards banned Holland for four days for this offence but a six-day deferred ban is also activated.

The jockey was handed a 21-day ban at Portman Square on Monday under the "totting up" procedure.