Life ban for Leicester 'lunatic' Officials at Leicester hope the frightening incident on Saturday evening when a spectator got on to the track was simply a freak one-off. Inside the final half-furlong of the Cream Gorse Handicap, the penultimate race on the card, a man in a shirt and jeans ran on to the course in an attempt to race against the horses. Luckily he was avoided by the field, and he was immediately ejected from the course. "We've never had anything like that before, and hopefully we'll never have it happen again," said clerk of the course Jimmy Stevenson. "It was a moment of madness by a lunatic. Racecourses aren't football stadiums, they're open plan, and we try to run the racecourse in a relaxed manner. "You could put a 10-foot fence up, but would that even stop someone like that? Thankfully there was no injury to either him or the horses and jockeys. "Security were on him straight away and he'll be banned for life."
