Man Runs Into Middle Of New Zealand Horse Race, Lives To Be Arrested

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COVID is old news in New Zealand where horse racing is packing in thousands of fans, including one guy who decided he would run onto the Trentham race track during the eighth race of Friday's Wellington Cup. Thoroughbreds roared down the homestretch as the unidentified man decided to see if this was the day he was going to die.

Let's get to the video and see what happened as the horses headed for the finish line.


"He was lucky he didn't get run over," jockey Danielle Johnson told the New Zealand Herald. "Most of us didn't see him until late."




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Joe Kinsey is the Senior Director of Content of OutKick and the editor of the Morning Screencaps column that examines a variety of stories taking place in real America. Kinsey is also the founder of OutKick’s Thursday Night Mowing League, America’s largest virtual mowing league. Kinsey graduated from University of Toledo.