Escaped Horses Trot Onto Northern State Parkway

MELVILLE, NY — A pair of horses made the Northern State Parkway their personal track on Wednesday.

It was a team effort to get the two horses home after they ran from their field and ended up on the parkway, the state police wrote on a social media post. A driver lured the horses with rice cakes while police blocked traffic, giving the owners the opportunity to walk their equines home.

"They are now back at home safe and sound and totally unharmed!" Katrina Olynyk, a horse trainer at the Thomas School Of Horsemanship, told Patch. "Thank you to the New York State police who gave them a police escort home, and the good Samaritans who caught them coming over the snowbank and held them safe before our staff got there."

The horses, Coffee and Barrington, ran out of the horsemanship school on Round Swamp Road in Melville when a tree fell and broke the fence of the corner field they were in, Olynyk said. The horses were then off to the races.

Coffee and Barrington trekked through the woods and uphill before they reached the Northern State Parkway. The staff of the horsemanship school recognized the horses had run off and went to retrieve them and walk them back home, Olynyk said.

A police photo shows the horses being corralled near exit 39 in Melville.

Other videos of the horses were uploaded to Instagram.