Euro maybe we should keep the fans away from the paddock as well huh? We can put up some barbed wire fences and have armed guards with machine guns on towers around it!!!
Quiet frankly i have never one time seen a person in the paddock do anything at all improper, never. I've seen fans spook a horse when they yell stupid things and even saw one rear when some guys up here at Saratoga decided to scream the horses name out when he entered the paddock. Have seen morons leaning on the paddock fence snap a picture with a flash that spooked em as well. But never saw anyone once in my life in the paddock do anything even remotely improper.
Please spare me the notion that having owners guests in the paddock is a grave threat. Its just not so, otherwise you could cite some incidents for me in which this caused a problem.