Stolen pony The Pickpocket returns home thanks to H&H readers
A Warwickshire woman has been reunited with her stolen pony — and she believes it’s all due to Horse & Hound.
Helen Locke appealed to H&H readers after her graded coloured pony stallion The Pickpocket was taken from her yard in Barlestone overnight on 29-30 December.
His picture appeared in H&H last week and the calls started coming in on Saturday night.
The Pickpocket was eventually traced to a field in Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
“Helen is absolutely delighted,” said her husband David. “We had advertised his disappearance on loads of websites but it wasn’t until he was in Horse & Hound that we got anywhere. We want to say a big thank you to the readers.”
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.