A pony named Sassy lived up to her name Monday when state police responded a report of the animal being spotted along a local stretch of the Indiana Toll Road. LAPORTE — A pony named Sassy lived up to her name Monday when state police responded a report of the animal being spotted along a local stretch of the Indiana Toll Road.

State troopers in Indiana ended up in a hoof chase with a "sassy" pony spotted wandering on a highway median. Sgt. Ted Bohner, public information officer for the Indiana State Police Bremen Post, said troopers responded to a report of a pony in the median on the Indiana Toll Road,

The call came in around 11 a.m. about a pony spotted in the median near mile marker 44 in LaPorte County. Two troopers rushed to the scene, but when they arrived, the pony was nowhere to be found.