Top Gun is one lucky mustang.

He was a wild horse from out West who was broken to the saddle in North Carolina three years ago. Last April, the 6-year-old disappeared from a Chatham County trainer's facility. He was later seen hoofing it along NC 87, heading northwest.

The horse's distraught owner had alerted NetPosse after she got over the first shock of her horse's disappearance. "I was really sick, I was so worried," says Tanya Fairweather.

Organized in Shelby more than a decade ago by horse owners Debi and Harold Metcalfe after their racking mare was stolen, the nationally active, all-volunteer nonprofit uses the Internet site, social media and a mammoth mailing list to get out the word when a horse goes missing.

"They reach out to the horse people, who care," says Aldridge. "It's almost like when one's missing, everybody owns the horse."

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RESOURCE: Carolina Country Magazine, by Hannah Miller, December 2013, http://www.carolinacountry.com/index.php/carolina-stories/item/rescuing-top-gun

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