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BornToWin
11-29-2011, 01:09 PM
Reported in the Irish Independent--
http://www.independent.ie/sport/horse-racing/sea-the-stars-foals-sell-for-record-pound45m-2947839.html

"French racing is coming to terms with the tragic death of Benjamin Boutin, the apprentice jockey critically injured in a fall at Argentan on Saturday.The 21-year-old was riding Game Of Legs for Pascal Bary in an apprentice's race at Argentan in Normandy, where he was involved in a four-horse pile-up.


He lay unconscious on the turf while attended to by on-course medics, and was initially taken to the general hospital in Argentan before being transferred on Sunday to the intensive-care unit at Alencon.


However, he died in hospital yesterday morning."

PJMIII
11-29-2011, 04:47 PM
I just saw that on Bloodhorse. What shame.