Horatio Nelson's price to win the Epsom Classic had plummeted after speculation Fallon, who also had the option of riding Coolmore's PapalBull from Sir Michael Stoute's yard, held a preference for him.
Pope Clement VII's 1530 bull approving the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V might seem an assertion of papal supremacy until one notes that it followed the 1527 sack of Rome by Charles's mutinous troops, many of them German Lutherans.