A woman left her neglected pony for so long that it was struggling to walk due to having overgrown hooves and had a high worm count due to eating food contaminated with faeces.
Sugar the pony was found tethered on scrubland behind a leisure centre in January 2021 and had clearly not been fed or cared for in some time.
Tammy Smith, 34, pleaded not guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to the animal in an earlier hearing in May 2021, Hull Live reports.
