Kieren Fallon kept up his storming recent run with a short-priced double at Haydock Park yesterday. He made it six winners in the last two racing days - despite taking Wednesday night off - by scoring on King Tango and Times O'War.

After his record-equalling eight victories at Glorious Goodwood, the champion jockey has now struck no fewer than 16 times in the past fortnight.

He landed a four-timer at Newcastle and made it five wins on the bounce as 10 to 11 favourite King Tango saw off the challenge of Andalish to score by two lengths in the Lincoln Mild Cigars Maiden Stakes.

The Henry Cecil-trained three-year-old was ending a run of three straight second places, including when beaten at odds of 1 to 4 under Willie Ryan at Pontefract on his previous start.

Fallon followed up on Times O'War (8 to 13), who proved three and a half lengths too good for his rivals in the Swan With Two Necks Selling Stakes.

Trainer Tim Easterby was relieved to retain the winner without a bid but he stressed: "He did it all right but it was a very lowclass race."

Easterby has his sights set higher on Saturday when last year's Tote Festival Handicap winner Jo Mell returns to Ascot to aim for more of the sponsor's money in the Tote International Handicap. "He should run well as long as the ground is not too firm," he said.

Former champion Frankie Dettori got one back on Compton Arrow in the Lancaster Auction Maiden. His mount will now be aimed at the valuable Tattersalls Breeders Stakes at the Curragh three weeks on Saturday after defying a supposedly unfavourable inside draw to beat Sports road cleverly by a neck.

Willie Supple was ruled out of the York Ebor meeting later this month after picking up a six-day ban. He was suspended after the stewards adjudged him responsible for interference in the early stages of the Lincoln Mild Cigars Handicap.

The jockey was found to have cut across the field on Technician after a furlong - as the runners turned into the first bend - causing a concertina effect whose chief sufferer was Fallon on 4 to 1 favourite Ra Ra Rasputin. But Supple was unhappy with his ban which he claimed was "for nothing - it was nothing to do with me."

Seeking The Pearl, a top-class Japanese filly, is one of 13 horses declared at yesterday's acceptance stage for the Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville on Sunday. The three-year-old is boarding at Geoff Wragg's Abingdon Place stables while she is prepared, by her Japanese trainer Hideyuki Mori, for a European campaign which will culminate in a crack at the Prix du Moulin at Longchamp next month.