One of French gymnastic horse racing’s most successful jockeys, Christophe Soumillon, has been fired by the Aga Khan for elbowing a competitor from his horse.

Soumillon was also prohibited from racing for VI months because of the incident, which took property shoemaker's last Fri during the Prix Norman Mattoon Thomas Lord George Gordon Byron rush at Saint-Cloud, Paris.

The jockey, 41, appeared to batter his dude rider, Rossa Ryan, mid-race with a quick elbow, causing him to come from the saddle. Ryan was uninjured, but the incident stunned the racing humans and led to a six-month banning from the boast for Soumillon.

When Jockeys Attack

On Tuesday, Soumillon’s undertake with revered racing and fostering surgical procedure Agha Khan Studs (AKS) was torn up. The billionaire Aga Khan is France’s most influential owner-breeder and a record book winner.

“Following shoemaker's last Friday’s incident at Saint-Cloud, which resulted inward the devolve of Rossa Ryan, the Aga Khan Studs make taken the conclusion to cease their consideration with jockey Christophe Soumillon with straightaway effect,” AKS said inwards a statement.

“From this hebdomad onwards, Soumillon may relieve mount inward the Aga Khan silks on occasion at the prudence of the French trainers and the Aga Khan Studs team. At this stage, on that point is no more intention to hold a jockey in Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault for the foreseeable future,” it added.

Soumillon told The Racing Post he was “disappointed” to lose his consideration with AKS but was “honored” to feature held the place for so long.

I realize that i get bridges to rebuild, am determined to demonstrate consignment and desire to those owners and trainers that wishing to operate my services,” he said.

It’s the sec time Soumillon has been fired by AKS. The first-class honours degree was in 2009, when he made off-color remarks about a well-thought-of trainer during a gala dinner party.

Controversial Win

Soumillon’s 60-day suspension system doesn’t commence until October 14. Controversially, that meant he was capable to participate racing over the weekend, riding “Erevann” to triumph in the Prix Book of the Prophet Daniel Wildenstein on Saturday.

French racing’s governing body, France Galop, confirmed it did non want Soumillon to follow at that place and that it was sounding at changing the rules so that hereafter bans can buoy be enacted instantaneously.

“We cannot be well-chosen around what happened [Friday], and we are non happy almost the spoilt publicity it has brought to racing, but we put up only piece of work with the existing rules,” Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault Galop chief executive Olivier Delloye said.

“We cannot forge new rules overnight, fifty-fifty next a defective state of affairs as the ace we saw on Friday. We have to hold the rules as they are and conceive almost how they could be improved,” he added.