Guest fined over cruelty case

RICHARD GUEST was yesterday fined £2,750 by the disciplinary panel of the Horse Racing Regulatory Authority in relation to criminal charges brought against him last November.

Guest, along with two stable employees, Richard Dalton and Louise Tidman, appeared at Durham Magistrates’ Court after the death of a horse in their care.

The trio were each given two-year conditional discharges for causing unnecessary suffering to an animal when What’s A Filly was put down after developing a severe infection in her near-hind leg.