I don't think WHW along with TS should be quite so pleased with them selves. They had been alerted to the horse's condition (and others) weeks before.
Even when they returned and saw little improvement in care, they still walked away.
It was a member of the public AGAIN calling them to say the horse had collapsed that finally made them take action. The horse was by then near to death.
They knew the horse was in danger. They witnessed the conditions of the horses there and yet they ticked boxes and gave advice and left the horses to suffer.
Congratulations should actually go to the members of the public who made the initial and subsequent phone calls demanding action.
According to the report, the owners were advised how to help the horse, and I guess they had to be given the chance to do that before welfare could take further action? In the meantime of course, the poor horse continued to suffer. I don't make the laws, just happy when someone steps in to stop animal suffering. To my mind, the trainer and owner should be made to work, without pay, at any of the rescue centres, for at least 2 years. Maybe during that time they would learn how to look after animals properly, and witness firsthand the misery that is caused by selfish, greedy, thoughtless people.,.