Cheeky racegoer's scene-stealing moment during live horse racing TV coverage
A cheeky racegoer pulled off a scene-stealing moment during live horse racing coverage on Saturday. The week long Galway Festival is one of the highlights of Ireland's racing calendar which features seven consecutive days of Flat and jumps action and is renowned for its lively atmosphere.
Day six of the marathon meeting had concluded with the Kevin Coleman-trained Thatwilldoso winning the 1m4f handicap, run at 6.05pm. On course RacingTV presenters Fran Berry and Donn McLean were wrapping up the day's action when unbeknown to them their broadcast was being photo-bombed.
Berry had no idea until after he finished he started receiving messages alerting him to what had been going on in the background.
He took a sceen shot of the clip and posted it on his social media with the message, 'Protests about the toilet roll shortage in Galway have intensified'.
Among the best responses were 'cracking selfie', 'some craic' and 'first-time cheekpieces, Fran'.
Berry told Mirror Racing: 'It was quite noisy by the last race on Saturday with a syndicate-owned horse having won. We were positioned inside the winners' ring and there was a lot of cheering going on.
'As we were doing a wrap we were completely unaware of what happened behind us. As soon as we finished up I got a lot of WhatsApp message with pictures and video of the lad in question.
'It's the nature of Galway, you can see everything and anything. There was no malice, it was just lads on a day out having too good a time. It was all taken in good humour.'
He added: 'There was no toilet roll shortage by the way, it was just a caption to go with it.
'Galway is very easy going, the three lads looked to be enjoying themselves and no harm was done.'
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