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A racecourse punter who was hoping to get nicely toasted on vodka smuggled inside a sandwich ended up in a bunfight with security.

After a Sunday meeting at Southwell Racecourse, the horse racing venue shared a picture on Twitter of a creative attempt made by one visitor to sneak some alcohol inside.

A 35cl bottle of Glen's Vodka had been screened by salami, seasoned with sliced tomato, and shrouded in a sub roll.

A racecourse spokesman said: "On Sunday for our ladies' day we had the best part of 9,000 people here, and lots of people were bringing picnics on the day.

"Our policy is you can't bring alcohol with them, and this particular customer had tried to disguise it with a salami and tomato sandwich.

"It was a bit of an unusual one for us, we've seen a couple of these before, some more obvious than others.

"Normally it would be confiscated off them but security said to them it was so innovative they could pick it up after the racing but they haven't done so - it's still sat in the office!"

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Sharing the spirit sandwich on Twitter, Southwell racecourse asked people to share their captions for the find.

Rob Reay quipped: "They won't be Russian back to your racecourse anytime soon!"

Chris Poole joked: "You have to admire this lad's spirit."

While Henacre Racing Club said they'd been "caught bread-handed".