He said that the marine was riding around a left-hand bend when he collided with a stationary camper van and suffered injuries which led to his death.

BBC: A Royal Marine

Given the testing conditions at the West Sussex course (several horses had already come a cropper around the famously tight right-hand bend), this was never going to be a procession on the scale of the 11-length drubbing Frankel handed out at Royal Ascot back in June.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Bend down ... hand low to the ground ... dribble ... then an explosive change of direction that sends the defender back onto his heels.

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