Near miss for protester

A SERIOUS incident was narrowly averted yesterday when an intruder encroached on to the track towards the end of the Ryanair Chase.

Fri, 18 Mar, 2011 - 00:00

A man climbed through the running rail, around 100 yards from the winning post, as the horses flashed by him.

He was wielding a placard believed to be aimed at Ryanair, the low-cost Irish airline owned by Michael O’Leary.

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