Ant Dec's regret over splashing out on 'awful' £35K racehorse with Simon Cowell

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Ant and Dec have joked about the time they invested in a racehorse with Simon Cowell - worth a whopping £35,000. The presenting duo laughed that they were left questioning their decision in 2013 after the animal proved "dreadfully slow".

Appearing on an online chat to promote their new career memoir, Once Upon A Tyne, Ant and Dec recalled that Simon had been just as stumped after racking up considerable stable fees.

Dec told: "It was awful, it was a dreadfully slow horse. "It wasn't a racehorse it was just a horse, 'cos it didn't race. "Every time we got to the BGT studio Simon would say, 'I keep paying stable fees on this horse, but I've never seen it run'." They added that Simon had wanted to name the animal after himself, before they