IN a scene reminiscent of a Disney film, Blue the pony missed her old stablemates so much she set out on an epic journey to be reunited with them..

After the four-year-old gipsy cob was moved from a farm in Wroughton to a field in Wichelstowe, to await being sold on, the determined little pony was not prepared to be parted from her friends Princess and Philippa.

So she embarked on a perilous journey that took her through Wichelstowe and over a bridge across the M4 and along a well-used country road, turning up at the gates of her previous home at Wharf Road livery stables.

“It’s amazing that she wasn’t hit,” said yard owner Debbie Jones who discovered Blue at 6.15am the day after she had been moved.

“I’ve never heard of a horse doing that. It was obvious she was happy here.”

Blue’s owner had collected her on Tuesday and installed her in a field near his home a couple of miles away.

He had wanted to use her for driving but she was not working well for him.

With barely a night in her new home, Blue squeezed through the hedge of her field and clip clopped through the darkened streets, past the Waitrose store and down Mill Lane, passing over the motorway and turning into Wharf Road.

“When we got up in the morning we found her back at our place and was neighing to her little friends,” said Debbie, who has been running the business for the past three years.

“She had made it all the way across the motorway bridge on her own,”

At first she thought the owner must have returned her himself without telling her. But when she phoned him he knew nothing of her escape.

It is thought a passer-by may have spotted her waiting outside the gate of the yard and put her in a stable.

Blue had already shown she had a mind of her own. Previously when her owner had taken her back to his field she had become difficult to catch.

At Wharf Farm she was stabled with Shetland ponies Princess and Philippa and spent most of her time in the field with them and they were just as delighted to see her as she was to be reunited with them.

“When she came back, the little ones, if you can say horses smile, they smiled,” said Debbie.

Now she won’t be parted from them again because Debbie has bought her. She will be on permanent loan to one of her former clients and will remain at the stables with her friends.