Greg Fairley

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Banned for 15 years, he now intends to make a comeback to race riding.

I am all for people being given a second chance but he will be under a lot of scrutiny. I doubt it will be easy to start from scratch again. No doubt some people will say he shouldn’t have a chance at all after what he did.

https://www.racingpost.com/news/britain/greg-fairley-set-for-return-to-race-riding-in-near-future-almost-a-decade-and-a-half-on-from-being-warned-off-from-sport-apS075w84HRo/

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At 37 years of age Greg is far from too old to be resuming Flat race riding, and the tree surgery business he’s run in the interim will presumably have kept him fit up to a point (accepting that nothing is likely a complete substitute for riding itself).

Ultimately, his return will live or die on who is prepared to trust that his rehabilitation is absolute and permanent. The Johnstons, Iain Jardine and Sandy Thomson appear to have given him their blessing and support, though as the last-named has saddled the grand total of one Flat runner in the past five years that’s not going to be worth the candle in terms of getting Greg back on the racetrack.

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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.

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