Horse & Hound Trending: Credit: World Horse Welfare Some “clever detective work” enabled World Horse Welfare to rescue two ponies from a walled urban garden that was a “dustbowl” in summer and a “mudbath” in winter. The mares, named Mary and Poppins, arrived at the charity’s Glenda Spooner Farm in February, having been removed from the garden in which they had been kept for many years. A spokesman for World Horse Welfare explained that numerous attempts by the charity’s field officers, other agencies and locals to support the ponies’ owner had been rejected. Although there was no grass in the garden, and the ponies never left it, as they were given food and water, and had a small shelter, their “very basic needs for existence” were being met so legally, the charity was unable to move them.