Some exciting moments in the neighborhood near Tedesco Country Club this morning when a neighbor’s horse got loose.
Stitch, who lives on Pilgrim Road, escaped just after 7 a.m., lifting up the gate himself.
“He was mad,” owner Rosemary Collins told the Current. “My neighbor usually feeds him in the morning. She fed her chickens this morning and then went inside…. Stitch didn’t like that.”
The first call came into Marblehead Police at 7:16 a.m. of a runaway horse in the Tedesco Street area. Stitch was then spotted on Ruby Street heading west.
It was an “unusual call for sure and a rarity in town,” said Police Chief Dennis King.
Another call to MPD reported the horse was nearly hit by a car near the country club.
Stitch was captured at 7:35 a.m. on the golf course. Collins’ daughter walked him back home.
Stitch is heading to the family’s farm in Maine in two weeks, where he’ll spend the summer.
“He has a girlfriend there,” Rosemary said.
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