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

Soumillon was also banned from racing for vi months because of the incident, which took put last Friday during the Prix Thomas Byron race at Saint-Cloud, Paris.

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

When Jockeys Attack

On Tuesday, Soumillon’s undertake with revered racing and genteelness surgical operation Agha Khan Studs (AKS) was torn up. The billionaire Aga Khan is France’s to the highest degree influential owner-breeder and a enter winner.

“Following utmost Friday’s incident at Saint-Cloud, which resulted in the return of Rossa Ryan, the Aga Khan Studs feature taken the determination to cease their consideration with jockey Christophe Soumillon with prompt effect,” AKS said inwards a statement.

“From this week onwards, Soumillon may stock-still mount inward the Agha Khan silks on occasion at the circumspection of the Daniel Chester French trainers and the Agha Khan Studs team. At this stage, at that place is no intention to keep on a jockey in French Republic for the foreseeable future,” it added.

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

I actualize that I feature bridges to rebuild, am set to demo consignment and want to those owners and trainers that wishing to wage my services,” he said.

It’s the back clip Soumillon has been fired by AKS. The first was in 2009, when he made off-color remarks near a well-thought-of trainer during a blowout dinner party.

Controversial Win

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

French racing’s governing body, France Galop, confirmed it did not need Soumillon to follow there, and that it was looking at ever-changing the rules so that futurity bans can buoy follow enacted instantaneously.

“We cannot be well-chosen most what happened [Friday], and we are not happy well-nigh the speculative publicity it has brought to racing. But we tin only if do work with the existing rules,” France Galop chief executive Olivier Delloye said.

“We cannot forge young rules overnight, even following a tough state of affairs as the one we saw on Friday. We experience to hold the rules as they are and conceive nigh how they could be improved,” he added.