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Racing venues now seem to be an easy target for the yob fraternity

Probably fuelled through excessive alcohol, some only need to drink a pint of pop before their aggressive nature kicks in

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A woman with a toddler was among those caught up in a fight that broke out on one of Haydock's biggest days of the jumps season.

The mass brawl on Saturday occurred just before the final race on the Grand National Trial card and at one stage 40 or 50 people were involved.

The incident happened in front of the Centenary Grandstand and spilled over on to the members' lawn, surrounding the woman who was holding her child.

A bench was knocked over in the fight, which broke out next to the rails bookmakers.


A man working for one of the layers said: "There were about 40 to 50 people involved and it got pretty nasty. It's just drunk people but someone got a right pasting in front of us, and there was beer flying everywhere.

"It seems to be happening a lot and the security needs to be better. There needs to be a police presence."

Another eyewitness said: "A man bumped into another man and then it all kicked off. It escalated from there and people came from all directions."

A Haydock spokesman said: "We take a zero tolerance position on anti-social behaviour. The perpetrators were ejected at the time and we are continuing to work with the police on this matter."

The course was not in a position to comment on any arrests or on injuries sustained.

Other brawls to mar racing

Police seek witnesses to 50-man brawl at Goodwood

Ten charged with with violent disorder in Goodwood brawl following dozen arrests

Fighting again mars Saturday racing with incident at Ascot

Racegoers ejected from Hexham after fight breaks out

The fight is the first notable incident of crowd trouble on a British course this year after a troubled 2018.

Racing had to deal with a major crisis at the start of the turf Flat season after a mass brawl marred Goodwood's opening fixture in May.

Three people were taken to hospital and police were called to the racecourse when fighting broke out after the sixth race.

There were similar scenes at Ascot the following week, forcing racecourses to deploy extra security and sniffer dogs in an attempt to curb the drugs and alcohol-fuelled violence.

And several racegoers were ejected from Hexham last June after fighting broke out at the end of a Saturday meeting.
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Drunken idiots.
Personally i can't stand racing and all the garbage associated with it.
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Not too surprising really given that it is now marketed more towards groups coming in and drinking all day. When you then also throw in the money element with people either making or losing big amounts and easy to see how tempers can flare quickly.
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Disgraceful behaviour, but bad behaviour is hardly a modern phenomenon.
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Stopped going to Haydock years ago because of this, mostly Scousers and Mancs having a go at each other, it's been going on for 20 plus years but often on the coach park after the racing as finished. There are other courses to give a wide birth to also, especially out of football season, when groups of rival fans use meetings as a chance for brawl.
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gessa wrote: Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:02 am Stopped going to Haydock years ago because of this, mostly Scousers and Mancs having a go at each other, it's been going on for 20 plus years but often on the coach park after the racing as finished. There are other courses to give a wide birth to also, especially out of football season, when groups of rival fans use meetings as a chance for brawl.
A massive shame this type of behaviour has raised it's ugly head on racecourses

The downside is it will put off families/decent folk (who are huge horse racing fans) off attending race meetings
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weasel wrote: Mon Feb 18, 2019 7:56 am Not too surprising really given that it is now marketed more towards groups coming in and drinking all day. When you then also throw in the money element with people either making or losing big amounts and easy to see how tempers can flare quickly.
Good points :tup:
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1964white wrote: Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:13 am A massive shame this type of behaviour has raised it's ugly head on racecourses

The downside is it will put off families/decent folk (who are huge horse racing fans) off attending race meetings
From what I've witnessed, pissed up females are part of the problem.
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gessa wrote: Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:37 am From what I've witnessed, pissed up females are part of the problem.
Beverley is a no go zone for serious racegoers on Ladies Day

Ladies my a*se , they are just a bunch of drunkard trollops
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In the summer, they do 'Newmarket Night's' events where there is racing during the day and live music in the evening. Last year, fights broke out while Little Mix were playing which as you can imagine was mainly parents with children in the crowd.
There was children in tears as a result.
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1964white wrote: Mon Feb 18, 2019 10:30 am Beverley is a no go zone for serious racegoers on Ladies Day

Ladies my a*se , they are just a bunch of drunkard trollops
Same story at Aintree and Chester. P*ssed up scouse 'ladies' squatting all over the place.
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1964white wrote: Beverley is a no go zone for serious racegoers on Ladies Day

Ladies my a*se , they are just a bunch of drunkard trollops
What a waste...of Image. Whose Beverley?

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