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Fallon to ride for Ballydoyle in Guineas

Kieren Fallon will ride Viscount Nelson for Aidan O'Brien in the StanJames.com 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday.

The surprise move was revealed by the Ballydoyle trainer on his website, www.aidanobrien.ie, with current stable jockey Johnny Murtagh on red-hot favourite St Nicholas Abbey and Colm O'Donoghue on Fencing Master.

O'Brien said the intention was for all three to run in the first Classic of the season.

He said: "At the moment we hope to run all three of our horses in the StanJames.com 2000 Guineas on Saturday in Newmarket, all three horses have come through their preparations well."

Fallon, former number one at Ballydoyle and who returned to race-riding last year, had been thought unlikely to have a ride in a race he has won four times, most recently on the O'Brien-trained George Washington in 2006.