What an incredible week it has been for sport’s enthusiasts, myself included.

There has been so much great stuff going on at the same time with something for everyone. From the Euros to Wimbledon to the Tour de France, to flat racing at the sport’s headquarters at Newmarket, England.

Then there’s Formula One racing with the British Grand Prix, the US Olympic trials at Eugene, Oregon and the US Women’s Open at San Martin, California.

And if that’s not enough, Las Vegas is host to a title-stacked edition of Mixed Martial Arts in the form of UFC 200 on Saturday night.

Whew! What fun!

Fortunately my tele is still in working condition and I’ve ensured that my electric bill has been paid to the full. I can’t have my only source of entertainment on the brink during such a breathtaking week.

Game of Thrones, Better Call Saul and The Americans will have to be shelved for the moment as I feast on some of the best sporting action of the month.

Meanwhile, racing lost one of its most colourful, if controversial characters, with the retirement of Irish jockey Kieren Fallon because of ‘profound depression’, which I believe is a mood disorder that causes an unrelenting feeling of melancholy and loss of interest in things that have normally interested one.

At the age of 51, Fallon was not quite over the hill considering Bill Shoemaker was still riding at the age of 54, Gary Steven rode in the Kentucky Derby when 52 while George Duffield was for many years before his retirement one of the oldest jockeys to ride in Britain.

Among the many highlights of his career, Dubai racing fans will perhaps best remember Fallon for winning the third round of the Al Maktoum Challenge in 2014, a year before the horse would go on to win the $10 million Dubai World Cup. Following Prince Bishop’s victory in the Al Maktoum Challenge Fallon had predicted that he was capable of winning a race like the Dubai World Cup, a boast that would come to fruition a year later.

At that time, Godolphin trainer Saeed Bin Surour admitted to me that he considered Fallon to be the best judge of a horse he had ever known and greatly valued whatever feedback he received from the six-time British champion jockey, with whom he came to be closely associated with for some time.

Perhaps the best tribute any jockey could ever receive upon his retirement was the one Sir Michael Stoute paid to him when he summed up the veteran’s legendary skills saying, ‘Kieren had a power that could propel horses to go faster than they thought they could.’

Among his many standout victories were the ones aboard Dylan Thomas in the Arc, the Derby with North Light and more recently the English 2,000 Guineas aboard Night Of Thunder.

Fallon was a gifted rider and he will be missed.