Christophe Soumillon has had his retainer with Aga Khan ended with
immediate effect after elbowing fellow jockey Rossa Ryan off his horse last Friday at Saint-Cloud.
The Belgian, who has been champion jockey in France 10 times and has won major races all over the world, has had a controversial summer.
He first picked up a lengthy ban when winning the Eclipse at Sandown on Vadeni, allowing his mount to drift to his right shortly after the line in celebration, narrowly avoiding a major incident.
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Speaking exclusively to Sky Sports Racing, jockey Christophe Soumillon admitted to making a ‘terrible mistake’ after elbowing Rossa Ryan out of the saddle, earning the French rider a two-month ban.
Then on Friday at Saint-Cloud, Soumillon moved to his right mid-race in the Prix Thomas Bryon, sticking out an elbow, which forced Rossa Ryan on Ralph Beckett’s Captain Wierzba to be unseated in a horror incident.
Speaking exclusively to Sky Sports Racing in the immediate aftermath of the race, Soumillon said: “I received a little bit of pressure from Rossa on my outside as I tried to keep a better position behind Ryan [Moore, on Continuous].