Fallon`s sparkling performance Kieren Fallon had favourite backers roaring as he brought the well-backed (5-1 to 7-2) Indian Spark with a perfectly timed run to win the Northern Rock Gosforth Park Cup (Showcase Handicap) at Newcastle this evening. Get Stuck In made most of the running on the far side, but just as he shook off Brave Burt, Fallon swooped on Indian Spark to lead well inside the final furlong and go on to win by three quarters of a length. The first nine home raced on the far side. Fallon, who rode a winner at the other end of the country at Folkestone this afternoon, said afterwards: 'We flew up from there, stopping off at Newmarket to pick up Michael Fenton and Jamie Mackay but we arrived in plenty of time - it was expensive though! 'Indian Spark felt really well tonight and we got a good run through, it was a good effort under top weight.' Winning trainer Jim Goldie was delighted with the ride the three times champion gave Indian Spark, but he went on: 'It is a shame for Tony (Culhane), he would have ridden the horse but is suspended. 'And the irony is that he picked up the ban riding one of Indian Spark`s owner Frank Brady` other horses, Able Ayr'! And of Indian Spark, he added: 'He was running off a rating of 99 tonight so he will go over 100 now and I suppose we will have to look for a Listed race. 'He won one of those at Chester last season, but going round the bends did not do his legs any good so he won`t be going back there.' James Hetherton`s Swynford Pleasure was given a well-judged ride by Tom Best to gain her third success from her last five starts in the Bollinger Champagne Challenge Series Handicap. He produced the James Hetherton trained mare with a steady run to lead a furlong and a half out and kept her going well to hold hat-trick seeking Duello, who did not have the clearest of runs, by a head. Hetherton was not present, but John Bottomley, whose brother Peter owns Swynford Pleasure, said: 'She will now go to Newmarket on Friday week, she has won twice there.'
