A YOUNG foal who had a difficult start to life seems to have finally found her home in a case of third-time lucky.

The five-week-old, called Coffee, was abandoned when her mother Kenco was disturbed by people while giving birth.

After failing to get the mother to accept the foal, her owner Sue Penny began a search for a potential foster parent.

Mrs Penny found a mare to act as a foster mother a few days later using the National Foaling Bank and Coffee was re-homed in Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Sadly the foal was abandoned once again after only a couple of days.

Coffee was then bottle reared by Mrs Penny in Leigh Sinton but without a mother she had to be put on a drip at Avenue Veterinary Centre, Malvern.

The foal is now heavily scarred having received a plasma transfusion.

This week there was at last good news for little Coffee as Constance, a former thoroughbred race horse who was brought to Mrs Penny by a meat dealer, took on the foal within moments.

Both horses are now living comfortably at stables on Lower Howsell Road, Malvern and Coffee is now learning vital horse behaviour from Constance.