Kieren Fallon, at the centre of dramatic scenes yesterday when he was one of 16 people detained by police after dawn raids into a race-fixing investigation, will be in action at Kempton tomorrow, hoping to make headlines of a different kind.

Bidding to win his seventh championship title, Fallon, who was released last night and was expected to be riding at Salisbury this afternoon, is going all out to hold on to his crown.

The former Malton-based rider has good prospects of adding to his tally of winners tomorrow aboard Blaze of Colour in the Rukba UBS Laing And Cruickshank Handicap.

Trained by Sir Michael Stoute, Blaze of Colour, a winner two outing ago, finished a respectable fourth at Brighton last time on ground which appeared to be too firm for her. Conditions will suit her much better tomorrow.

Frankie Dettori's Kempton mounts include Light Of Dubai in the Rukba PAFS Fillies' Conditions' Stakes. A daughter of Dubai Destination, she is held in high regard in the Godolphin camp and is fancied to make a winning debut.

Dettori can also score on the promsing Halle Bop in the Rukba Cantor Sport Maiden Fillies' Stakes. Recent winner Belle Rouge, in the form of his life under the training of Con Horgan, provides Dettori with another sound chance of hitting the target in the Rukba Morgan Stanley Handicap over two miles.

At Haydock, Out After Dark will be a popular choice in the European Breeders' Fund Classified Stakes over six furlongs.

The three-year-old is developing into a useful sprinter, as he proved at Sandown at Pontefract on his latest winning starts.

Lightly-raced by trainer Clive Cox, Out After Dark has more in the tank yet and looks a horse to keep on the right side of until the end of the campaign. Philip Robinson, who rode his 50th winner of the season at York yesterday, has the mount on my Nap selection.

Robinson can also make his mark aboard Saadigg in the National Stud Never Say Die Club Median Auction Maiden Stakes over a mile.

In the frame in both his races to date, Michael Jarvis's promising juvenile would need to improve a great deal to make it third-time-lucky and open his winning account.

Also worth noting at Haydock, which on Saturday hosts the Group 1 Stanleybet Sprint Cup, which is again the target of Tim Easterby's Somnus, last year's winner, are the in-form pair Goodbye Mr Bond (4.10) and Sendintank (5.10).

Friday's tips:

Kempton

1.35 Ameeq, 2.10 Brego, 2.40 Halle Bop, 3.15 Loyal Love, 3.45 Light of Dubai, 4.20 Blaze of Colour 4.50 Belle Rouge, 5.25 Pagan Prince.

Haydock

2.30 Emerald Lodge, 3.05 Out After Dark (Nap), 3.35 Saadig, 4.10 Goodbye Mr Bond, 4.40 Sendintank, 5.10 Milk And Sultana.

Tomorrow's only other meeting is at Chepstow

Updated: 12:11 Thursday, September 02, 2004