A LUCKY schoolgirl found a one in a million five-leaf clover while clearing up after her runaway horse.

Alice Sullivan, 16, was picking up fencing after her horse Summer escaped, and saw the rarer-than-rare clover standing taller than the rest in the field.

The five-leaf clover is even rarer than its four-leaf counterpart. It is believed that the odds of finding a four-leaf clover on your first try are one in 10,000 and one in 1,000,0000 of finding a five-leaf clover first time.

They are meant to symbolise extra good luck and luck with money.

Lucky student Alice Sullivan, 16, found the five-leafed clover after her horse Summer escaped her field through an electric fence.

The teen lives near Bere Regis and keeps her horse Summer, 12, in the field near her home.

Alice, who attends a boarding school in Wiltshire, said it was a “strange story.”

She went to pick up the bits of electric fence Summer had broken through when she spotted a clover that looked different.

She said: “I was looking at the ground. It was standing taller than the rest. I thought ‘That’s got four leaves.’

“I picked it up and realised it had five.”

Alice said her first concern was Summer, so she put the clover in her pocket. The horse was fine and was found standing by the gate to the field trying to get close to the house to get home.

When Alice got back inside she searched the internet for information on five-leafed clovers.

She said: “I didn’t think they were that uncommon. I’d never seen one. I went into the house and Googled it and it said there are not that many. I was like, ‘OK, that’s quite lucky. I’ll probably never find another one.”

Alice only found the clover last Monday so although nothing particularly lucky has happened so far, she said she intends to press it and keep it for good luck.