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Police in Colombia recover Faustino Asprilla’s missing horse | Police in Colombia recover Faustino Asprilla’s missing horse |
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The former Newcastle United and Colombia striker Faustino Asprilla has recovered a £43,500 horse he lent to a friend who gave it away while drunk at a fair. | |
The Valle del Cauca regional police chief, Fernando Murillo, said the horse named Lucas, which had been missing since 17 April, was found in a stable in the town of Florida. | |
“It had been left there by some people we are now seeking,” the Bogota daily El Espectador quoted Murillo as saying. | “It had been left there by some people we are now seeking,” the Bogota daily El Espectador quoted Murillo as saying. |
“What really happened was that Tino lent the horse to a friend who, in a drunken state, had given it away to two young men.” | |
Asprilla, who also played for Parma, had offered a 5m Colombian pesos (£1,090) reward for the horse’s recovery. He had allowed his friend to ride it at the Buga Fair parade. |
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