Brawl at Aintree

[Mike007]

I blame ITV Racing myself. How often did this happen before Ed Chamberlin said “come racing’ with images of young fellas drinking alcohol at the bars.

[BigG]

” If only minimal training, they may have even been told by their bosses not to step in if something major breaks out. ie CAS, stepping in may not be what “they are paid to do”.

You have a good point there Ginge and you have to gauge the situation, but the 2 security
guys were there at the start of the melee. That’s the time to step in, the longer you leave
it the liklihood of the problem escalating is likely. I wouldn’t expect them to step into a
major rammy, but they had a chance to contain it before it got out of hand and to be honest
from what I saw I don’t think any of the percipients were ninja’s.

[Miss Woodford]

If you want some light entertainment search for the name of any American jumps meet + “fight” on Youtube

etc.
Similar antics used to happen in the Preakness day infield but I’ve heard that has been cleaned up in recent years.

Britain doesn’t have a monopoly on this sort of thing

[vikingflagship]

What disgraceful behaviour, they are not horse racing fans. I still don’t get the why go racing and just drink drink drink. When can do that at the pub.
Someone said it was apparently a works Christmas party do.
I hope they get punished, fines and police look I to this.
Shameful behaviour that dampens the sport

VF x

[FinalFurlong91]

Simple solution to this

Ask everyone as they arrive if they are football fans

If the answer is yes tell them they aren’t welcome

Also anybody not wearing socks

[Marlingford]

Aside from pub and nightclub bouncers, my perception is that the majority of people employed as “security” at events and to guard buildings would be unable to contain any physical force whatsoever. They are primarily there simply to monitor and raise the alarm if there is a problem.

In the days of yore that was usually fine for racecourses but, as standards of acceptable public behaviour sink ever lower, racecourse management need to catch up with the times.

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