UPDATE: Riderless horse prompts Canyon Country search

The day-long mystery of a riderless horse that showed up in a Canyon Country park has been solved.

Local sheriff’s deputies began looking for a horseback rider Sunday after a saddled horse showed up riderless in Canyon Country, a sheriff’s spokesman said early in the day.

About noon, deputies of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station received a report from someone who found a horse with no rider in Discovery Park near Canyon View Drive, said Sgt. Rich Nagler.

“All we have right now is a horse without a rider,” he said 15 minutes after receiving the report.

Deputies searched the area around the park and through the Santa Clara River wash, treating the incident as a rider who may have fallen off the horse.

“The horse was fine,” Nagler said. “We’re just trying to figure out what happened.

“Perhaps, the horse wasn’t tied up and went for a walk.”

By late afternoon, deputies figured out that the horse did, in fact, wander away from a corral on Honby Street, off Bouquet Canyon Road just south of Vasquez Canyon Road.

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	Posted: March 10, 2013 6:12 p.m. Updated: March 10, 2013 6:12 p.m.


	sreilly11: Posted: March 10, 2013 3:44 p.m. “Perhaps, the horse wasn’t tied up and went for a walk." Hopefully this is what happen.........sure hate to think about someone out there hurt and can't get help for themselves. NotSoAwesomeTown: Posted: March 10, 2013 4:46 p.m. The fact that the horse was saddled is indeed cause for concern. Hope they find the rider. Code4: Posted: March 10, 2013 6:49 p.m. If there is a body, all you have to do is listen for the rooster crowing. But seriously, hopefully no one is hurt. ElmerFudd: Posted: March 10, 2013 9:21 p.m. Yes, Roosters can spook horses! Always yield the trail right of way to any demented or intoxicated looking roosters you cross paths with. ohhyaa: Posted: March 10, 2013 11:04 p.m. If this happened on Halloween night it would have terrified our city.


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