Bantling Boy

"Bantling Boy" is the fourth episode of the eighth season of British television show Midsomer Murders and the thirty-ninth episode overall. It stars John Nettles as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and John Hopkins as Detective Sergeant Dan Scott. Horse trainer Bruce Hartley is killed after refusing to go along with the other owners and sell their racehorse, Bantling Boy. But the syndicate is based on a dark secret, and as one death follows another, Barnaby and Scott are drawn deeper into the owners' lives.