Life could have been very different for Myrddin and the 14 other very young colts taken in from the Whispering Willows horse sanctuary. They were underweight, malnourished and suffering. Myrddin had a painful eye ulcer. Their situation was deteriorating day by day. We took the colts in following a large multi-agency rescue involving a total of 137 horses in November 2019. 18 months later, in February 2021, the owner of the horse sanctuary, Sandra Stolp, pleaded guilty to four Animal Welfare Act offences relating to 22 horses at Swansea Magistrates Court. Stolp admitted in court that her failure to adequately address the poor condition or injury of 22 horses led them to suffer unnecessarily contrary to section 4 of the Animal Welfare Act. At sentencing, she was banned from keeping horses for ten years and told to pay £1,000 in costs. A donation of just £10 today will help horses and ponies in urgent need.