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image captionThe Dartmoor ponies were bought as a birthday gift
Four horses held for a month at Belfast Port due to incorrect post-Brexit paperwork are to be released, a judge has ordered.
The Dartmoor ponies, bought by a County Down woman for her daughter's birthday, were detained after arriving on a ferry from Liverpool on 21 March.
The animals were held because of issues with veterinary forms completed to comply with the NI Protocol.
The case is the first of its kind since the new arrangements came into force.
The ponies faced the prospect of being returned to Britain to be quarantined for a further 30 days.