Owners 'embarrassed at having sold a perfectly good horse' for slaughter which later ran in race

The owners of a "broken down" stallion sent for slaughter - but which was later entered in a race - were embarrassed because they sent a perfectly good animal to be put down, the High Court has heard.

Thistle Bloodstock, whose beneficial owner is Dubai-based Jim Long, should not be given a continued injunction to prevent the Tartan Spartan from being entered into races, horse trainer Philip Fenton and horse dealer Jim Derwin have argued.