Underlining its determination that there will be "no place for violence" in horseracing the BHA has banned the man guilty of assault at Cheltenham Gold Cup from all race courses.

Matthew Foxton-Duffy, Cheltenham's head of marketing, hit his head on a door frame after being punched in the face in Cheltenham Racecourse's pop-up Gin and Jazz Bar marquee at the March festival.

Racegoers in the festival bar would have paid just shy of £100 to also listen to music from Ronnie Scott's Jazz Band.

Andrew Bentley, 28, from Walsall and the man behind the assault, pleaded guilty to the deed at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court on April 10, was ordered to pay £300 compensation to Mr Foxton-Duffy and given a community order.

Now he has learned there are further repercussions. The BHA (British Horseracing Authority) has now served Bentley with an indefinite exclusion order from all racecourses.

It is the authority's fifth such order since October as it continues to try to show a tough stance against what some see as a rising tide of incidents at horseracing events.

A scene described as a "mass brawl" at Goodwood in May and a "serious incident" at Ascot shortly afterwards involving 17 arrests, including one for sexual assault and two for assaulting a police officer, did not help matters.

"There is no place for violence on British racecourses. Whilst we believe the majority of staff and racegoers enjoy a calm and safe atmosphere on race days in Britain, where necessary the BHA will always consider using its powers to exclude individuals who are proven to have resorted to violence," a BHA spokesperson told the Racing Post.