Feisty young racehorse escapes stables, rampages through betting bar

After the week that was, there's nothing more satisfying than watching a young racehorse rampaging through a French betting bar.

Customers merrily spending their morning at a local establishment in Chantilly, north of Paris, were rudely interrupted by a young bucking horse around 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 24.

In CCTV footage taken from the PMU bar (that's Pari Mutuel Urbain, France's national betting system), the lively and seemingly panicked filly prances through the tables and chairs, while customers flee.

According to French newspaper Ouest France, the hoofed anarchist had fled approximately one kilometre (0.6 miles) from its stable within a training facility near Chantilly's racecourse.

According to witnesses who talked to the publisher, the bar door was slightly open, and customers saw the horse coming, but didn't think it would actually come into the bar. Luckily, no one was injured.

"She came in, pushing the door. She raced all the way to the PMU corner. Then, the filly turned around, breaking a table and chairs," bar owner Stéphane Jasmin told the newspaper, as per Google Translate.

So, how did this young rebel escape? The horse's trainer, Jean-Marie Béguigné, told OF: "Between the track and the stables, his rider fell. The filly escaped by going on the road, crossing a roundabout before entering this bar."

Although the renegade was reportedly apprehended in a car park, and returned to the stable, Béguigné said the horse has "a penchant for escape."

Needless to say, folks were rather taken with this cheeky cheval.

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The irony was not lost on those with local knowledge that the young budding racehorse had rampaged its way through a bar where people can bet on horse races — in Chantilly, of all places, which is renowned for its horse racing industry.

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Of course, this young'un wouldn't be the first horse to walk into a bar.