Beeb radio's a kick in the bails.

Byline: JOE PUNTER

SO Kieren Fallon is cranking up the PR machine to let the world and its wife know that he is fit and ready to do business again.

His drugs ban from the French racing authorities does not end until September but the wee man has wasted no time in putting forward his case for a welcome back to the sport he says is his life.

Horses still want to go for me, read the front page headline in the Racing Post as Fallon claimed his appetite was as big as ever. Trouble is, the allegations that quite a few cuddies didn't want to go for the former champion jockey are still hanging over his head.

Fallon isn't big on contrition and I for one will not be waiting with breath bated for his return to the saddle.

ON the subject of the lamentable BBC, would someone at Auntie's fun palace please explain to me why you get zilch racing coverage on the radio while you're forking out big bucks to cover England's cricketers in the West Indies?

Have you ever listened to cricket covered this way? It's about exciting as a WRI jam-making class but with a poorer final product.

Then again, the licence payer is once more asked to fund self-interest from those at the top of the Beeb tree.

Silly mid-off? Silly sod off more like it.

I KNOW Lord Oaksey is a throw back to the old school tie brigade but I still raised a glass to him on his 80th birthday.

He has the old buffer act off to a T and despite a riding style that owed more to a Navaho brave who has been on the white man's whisky for too long than a jockey he has cast many pearls of wisdom in his writings.

Long may he flourish.

GOT a racing query? Write to Joe Punter, Sports Desk, Sunday Mail, One Central Quay, Glasgow, G3 8DA or email [e-mail]