Horse Racing: Belgian trial king.(Sport)

From: Sunday Mirror (London, England) | Date: May 14, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: By BILL KNIGHT

BELGIAN Christophe Soumillon's cross-channel trip to Ling-field netted a nifty Classic trial double yesterday, but for Kieren Fallon there was just more pain.

Already hobbling with the foot he injured nine days earlier, Fallon was fired into the Surrey turf when Botteen broke a foreleg and fell at the two-furlong marker in the Derby trial.

Botteen was destroyed, but the determined jockey shrugged off his bruises to ride in th...

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