--- title: Runaway Shetland Pony in Crawly: Video description: Shetland pony was on the loose in Crawley. Sussex Police captured it and is still looking for the owner. canonical: https://time.com/4193961/shetland-pony-runaway/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-26T18:44:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:15.411Z og:title: Watch a Runaway Shetland Pony Lead Police on a Chase og:description: Shetland pony was on the loose in Crawley. Sussex Police captured it and is still looking for the owner. og:url: https://time.com/4193961/shetland-pony-runaway/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Runaway Shetland Pony Lead Police on a Chase twitter:description: Shetland pony was on the loose in Crawley. Sussex Police captured it and is still looking for the owner. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Runaway Shetland Pony Lead Police on a Chase  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 26, 2016 6:44 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 26, 2016 6:44 PM UTC Authorities are still looking for the owner of a runaway Shetland pony that authorities chased down and captured Sunday afternoon. An hour after receiving reports that the animal was spotted galloping through the town of Crawley, the pony was “contained using ropes in the garden of a property,” a spokesperson for the Sussex Police said in a statement to TIME. “The pony is currently being kept at a private yard and remains the responsibility of Sussex Police until the owner is found.” YouTube user Christopher Ballinger appears to have uploaded video of the animal on the loose: (h/t [_Mashable_](http://mashable.com/2016/01/26/police-chase-shetland-pony/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4193961/shetland-pony-runaway/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4193961/shetland-pony-runaway/"},"headline":"Watch a Runaway Shetland Pony Lead Police on a Chase","datePublished":"2016-01-26T18:44:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:15.411Z","description":"Horse on the loose","url":"https://time.com/4193961/shetland-pony-runaway/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4193961/shetland-pony-runaway/","name":"Watch a Runaway Shetland Pony Lead Police on a Chase"}}]}] ```