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.
“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.