Horse runs amok on Blackpool Promenade after breaking loose
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Police were called after a horse was spotted running loose on the tram tracks near North Pier at around 10.47am on Monday (March 6).
Footage from the scene – taken by The Three Mouseketeers UK – shows the runaway horse trotting onto the Promenade from Cocker Square.
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Hide AdSurprised motorists can be seen quickly manoeuvring out of its way as it runs onto the tram tracks next to the Metropole Hotel.
A police car then arrives on the scene before following the horse as it makes its way along the promenade, amusing nearby passers-by.
“If anybody’s lost a horse he was last seen cantering down Dixon Road heading towards North Shore,” one person wrote on social media.
Another resident added: “It was chasing my car down Church Street, Topping Street then Deansgate.
“Rapid it was.”
Officers confirmed the horse was “brought under control a few minutes later near to Central Pier”.