Just look at these two magnificent boys. They were adopted by Royal Park Shires, along with Lizzie a beautiful grey mare.

Here they are pulling a charabanc…It is wonderful when the owners keep in touch.

Sadly it is not always the case. Last year one of our ponies was shot, they never contacted us for advice or help. They just took matters into their own hands. They did pay dearly for it. They settled out of court.

Last week another of our adopters sent a long email in asking if they could sell their adopted pony as they wanted to recoup their costs. They said they would split the money with us though as they knew we needed the money. Needless to say, said pony was back in the yard the same day.

I had no reason not to trust these people, none at all. Just goes to show how wrong you can be.

So when this picture came through it was just lovely and very, very heart warming in these awful times.

Deb