READ MORE: \ufeff<\/strong>Career-defining victory that made star 'feel sick'<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE: \ufeff<\/strong>Tips: The factor slowly turning Joey against Panthers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In scary scenes that could have had serious implications for Ryan, the Irishman\ufeff lost his balance and fell to the ground in mid-air as Soumillon continued on before stewards intervened and disqualified him in the aftermath of the race.<\/p>\n "Oh, wow, Soumillon put the elbow out there," a stunned Sky Sports commentator Jamie Lynch said.<\/p>\n "Oh, dear me. I haven't seen that before, I don't think I've seen that before in a race."<\/p>\n Thankfully, Ryan escaped unscathed and didn't seem to hold any ill will towards the Belgian after the race.<\/p>\n "I just got a bump and lost my balance. It's just one of those things that happens," Ryan said.<\/p>\n "I feel disappointed for Ralph (trainer) and his team bringing him out here, but we'll move on.<\/p>\n "The horse is fine, I'm fine. That's the main thing. I'm 100 per cent."<\/p>\n Despite the unsavory act,\ufeff Soumillon is free to race in the $AUD6.9 million Arc de Triomphe race on Sunday as his ban does not take effect until October 14.<\/p>\n "I put my elbow against him just to make him understand I wasn't going to the inside," Soumillon explained.<\/p>\n "Unfortunately when I asked my horse to go there and to the right I pushed him (Ryan) for a stride or two and he fell off. Straight away I knew I made a mistake.<\/p>\n "I'm terribly sad with what happened as I hate seeing stuff like this. When you are the one doing it you feel even more terrible.<\/p>\n "I want to apologise to everyone. I just saw Rossa and he is fine and the horse is too. It was not a nice act on my side and I am terribly sorry and want to apologise."<\/p>\n "I just received a big suspension from France Galop stewards – I am going to be suspended for two months.<\/p>\n "My season is now gone. I accept the sentence for what I did, it was a terrible decision.<\/p>\n "I shouldn't have done that and I didn't do it on purpose to make him fall off the horse.<\/p>\n "I probably did it with a bit of power but it was a misjudgment from my side. I feel really bad."<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Racing authorities in Europe have handed \ufeffBelgian jockey Christophe Soumillon a two-month ban for elbowing a rival jockey off of his horse mid race. During […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241730,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241728\/revisions\/241730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n