Police have arrested two people on Saturday night after a horse collapsed in front of crowds of people outside the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.
The stricken black pony was photographed on the ground, surrounded by concerned onlookers.
In the shocking photos posted to social media by one of the rescuers, a horse-drawn buggy can be seen next to the mare, with a handwritten sign stuck to it reading "free to a... home".
The horse had collapsed on was understood to have been out in the heat for "hours" before collapsing on the road in the city centre.
The horse can be seen lying on the ground in a video shared on Twitter, as two women try to bring the exhausted mare to her feet.
Shirley P Wilson, who filmed the incident told told WalesOnline: "In Cardiff, Wales. I am so very sad. In front of the stadium watching this unfold."
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Sandra Kvaerneng Stolp from Swansea-based Whispering Willows Sanctuary said in a video uploaded to Facebook that she had been called by police to collect the black mare.
She said on Saturday evening that she was making her way back to the sanctuary with the horse in the back of her horse box, who was back on her feet for the trip back to the rescue centre.
"We were called by the police. A horse had been down on Westgate Street for a couple of hours. It had collapsed on the road," she said in the online video.
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"We did what we could and we got her up and she's now in the back. She's munching on her hay, it was the hay that got her in the box.
"We don't know how old she is. We're now going to go home and call the vet out."
It's the second time the sanctuary were called out to assist a horse over the Easter weekend.
On Friday, a horse nicknamed 'Gary' by animal welfare campaigners collapsed in a Lidl car park in Queensferry and the Whispering Willows team travelled to rescue it.
People were quick to praise Sandra and the animal sanctuary for rescuing the animal in Cardiff, and sent their well wishes to the horse though social media.
Teresa Kinglsey wrote: "You guys are great. Poor little girl. So glad you have her, especially if she is a foal. So lovely to see her munching on her hay."
"You are an amazing team, well done," Lisa Waddy-Griffiths said.
Jullie Webber-Moran added: "Thank god this horse has been picked up and on her way to [a] happy life".
Simon Evans, an RSPCA officer at the scene, confirmed that two people had been arrested on suspicion of offences under the Animal Welfare Act.
He added that the horse was due to be seen by a vet on Saturday night.
South Wales Police have so far declined to comment on the incident.
