Former Australian polo captain pleads guilty to charges arising from pony incident on Spirit of Tasmania
By Lucy MacDonald/ABC News
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A former Australian polo captain has pleaded guilty to putting more than a dozen polo ponies — 16 of which died during the journey — at risk of suffocation and asphyxiation when he put them on the Spirit of Tasmania in 2018.
Andrew Williams was taking the ponies back to New South Wales following a polo event at Barnbougle in Tasmania’s north in January 2018.
When he arrived at Yarra Glen, Victoria, Mr Williams opened the trailer to find 16 dead ponies and two fighting for their lives.
It is unclear when the ponies died, but it happened somewhere between boarding the Spirit of Tasmania in Devonport and arriving in Yarra Glen, one hour north of Melbourne.
Four and a half years and multiple court cases later, there is a guilty plea…
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