It is not known whether the horse pictured is the same one that went missing (Picture: YouTube)

Faustino Asprilla has been reunited with his £43,500 horse which went missing after the former Newcastle forward reportedly lent it to a friend who gave it away while drunk at a fair.

The horse named Lucas, which had been registered as lost since April 17 , was found in a stable in the Colombian town of Florida.

‘It had been left there by some people we are now seeking,’ the Bogota daily El Espectador quoted Valle del Cauca regional police chief Fernando 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, 45, is believed to have offered a £1,090 reward for the horse’s successful recovery after allowing his friend to ride it at the Buga Fair parade.

This video, ‘At home with Tino’, features Asprilla riding a horse – now there’s a sentence you never thought you’d hear.