hit with a restraining order after she refused to stop feeding a retired racehorse carrots because he was, she said, "sad looking" and "thin."The horse was afforded legal protection from Margaret Porter, 67, from Scruton, Yorkshire, in order to protect him from overfeeding.York magistrates heard the dispute over Nelson's carrots had become the talk of the village on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, with the parish council asked to intervene in the increasingly bitter feud.Prosecutors made the application to York magistrates on behalf of Nelson, the chestnut gelding, following Mrs Porter's “laudable” effort to feed him after spotting him outside his stable and thinking he was "sad looking”.She then came to the view that he was under-fed so.
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