RYE, NY —Officers from the Westchester County Police Department and Rye Police Department put a little giddy up into park guests who showed up at Rye Playland on the morning of July 5 with a trailer full of horses and let them loose in a picnic area at the park. Actual horses, not the carved horses found on the recently restored Grand Carousel.
A County Police officer on an inspection at Playland told the people that the horses were not permitted there, and they needed to find a riding trail or bridle path where horse were permitted. The group initially refused the request to leave and were uncooperative with the WCPD officer. On request. Rye PD sent two officers to the scene and the man trailered the horses and left.
Rye PD reported the call as “request assistance with guests unwilling to leave with horses”.
“A group of travelers that stopped at Playland to let their horses run and graze in the picnic area located in the back parking lot,” said a Rye PD spokesperson.
The group had pulled into the Playland parking lot towing a horse trailer. They were passing through the area,” according to a WCPD spokesperson. “They wanted to let the horses stretch their legs, so to speak.”