"She must have taken the bend too tight, and then I felt her clipping my back wheel, " said Chausson, who had been unaware she was in a duel for the gold medal.
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.