Passenger rides on a horse-drawn boat have made the canal a popular tourist attraction in the summer months.

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Morse tracked down the company's owner, and in 2007 he bought it, trading his former career in the horse business for one in the boat world.

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Photos and video taken of the rescue show Kelly and others placing a tow line under the horse's saddle and securing it to the boat.

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