A real-life cowboy on horseback chased down and lassoed a runaway cow - sprinting down a busy highway. <br /><br />Dashcam video shows the animal running onto the highway, leading wranglers on a chase across three lanes of traffic.<br /><br />The Michigan state troopers responded to a call requesting they be on standby on the I-75 highway after a cow escaped from a pasture.<br /><br />A team of cattle wranglers had already been deployed near Belford Road in Holly Township to rescue the animal from a gravel pit.<br /><br />But the cow escaped and ran onto the highway at around 3:00pm, leading the wranglers on a chase.<br /><br />State troopers shut down the north and southbound lanes to avoid collisions until one of the wranglers successfully lassoed the cow and subdued it. <br /><br />The highway was reopened after about an hour with no major incident.<br /><br />The Michigan State Police said: "We haven't use the wranglers in the past and the reason we responded to that area was actually for the safety of the motorists and horses on the freeway.<br /><br />"It took a couple of hours to get him in the trailer. The freeway itself was closed for about an hour"
