Racegoers get upset with drivers and jockeys after races from time to time. It happens. It is also pretty safe to say that disgruntled fans don’t usually get access to the jockeys’ or drivers’ rooms. Although, that wasn’t the case on Tuesday (September 29), as a horse racing participant was assaulted in the room after a card of racing.
According to a report by Racing Post, Irish rider Aidan Coleman was assaulted in the jockeys’ room at Southwell Racecourse in Nottinghamshire, England after two intoxicated racegoers broke down a door and gained access to the room.
The two males were arrested in the assault. A pair of females that joined the men for a day of racing were also arrested by authorities.
The report explains that the track had stopped serving the men alcohol halfway through the card and that they were being watched by track security. The article goes on to explain that the men were able to break down the door at some point after the last race on the program, which led to the ultimate altercation and arrests.
"Two of them burst into the changing room and when they were asked to leave it all kicked off,” Coleman, the assaulted jockey, was quoted as saying in the report. “I think they had drunk that much they didn't know what they were doing."
(With files from Racing Post)