GOSHEN — Tuesday was a rough day for Katie Sue.

The 27-year-old draft horse was rescued by firefighters — twice — after getting herself stuck in the 4-foot-square opening of a well, and later in the mud.

Katie Sue was scraped and exhausted after her twin rescues, but she was doing fine and grazing as usual by Wednesday, the Eugene Register-Guard reported.

When firefighters arrived Tuesday evening, they found the horse with only her head and one leg protruding from the well near Goshen, south of Eugene.

As darkness fell, 35 firefighters assembled in the field. Portable lights were set up and Rich Hill, a Eugene Fire Department captain who volunteers with the Goshen district, devised a plan, said Denise Wolting, public information officer for the Goshen Rural Fire Protection District.

It took pulleys, chains, a backhoe and eight firefighters on each side to lift the fire hoses they’d run beneath the sedated 1,500-pound horse. By 10:25 p.m., Katie Sue was drugged and tired, but she was free.

The veterinarian tended to her injuries and she was moved to another field. The firefighters went their separate ways.

Three hours later, though, the fire chief got a call at home. He returned with about 10 firefighters, who used straps to pull Katie Sue from the mud.