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As it happened: Dramatic attempt to capture wild horse

  • Attempt to capture horse reported running wild up to four weeks ago.
  • Horse's origins unknown.
  • Staff from the Galley Hill Equine Surgery in Breach Barns Lane, Waltham Abbey, fed the disheveled brown and white stallion apples with sedatives at Gunpowder Park in Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey.
  • First attempt to shoot horse with sedation dart fails and horse bolts
  • Teams concerned as horse approaches homes and road.
  • Second attempt appears successful, but horse continues to run.
  • Third and fourth attempts fail to sedate horse, named Wilson by rescuers.
  • Rescue called off after fifth attempt to sedate horse fails

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