The “steaks” were high — and he lost.
A runaway bull died in the hands of the city’s Animal Care and Control after leading cops on a wild hour-long chase through Queens Tuesday, officials said.
The bull, which escaped from a slaughterhouse, was shot with at least five tranquilizer darts by police before it likely died of stress, police and witnesses said.
The animal was transported to a crematorium, where it will be disposed of, according to police.
Members of the NYPD’s elite Emergency Services first chased the bold bovine to a neighbor’s backyard near Marsden and 168th streets, where cops shot it with tranquilizer darts , police sources said.
But the raging bull broke free and dashed into another neighbor’s yard on 158th Street and 116th Avenue, police and witnesses said.
There, cops shot the animal again with more tranquilizer darts to calm it and injected the animal with a syringe — strapped to a long pole — of xylazine, a drug used for sedation, which knocked out the animal for at least an hour, sources said.
Officials had planned to transport the bull to a nearby ASPCA and then to a sanctuary in New Jersey, sources said.
The animal escaped from Aziz Halal slaughterhouse on Beaver Road, where a cow also broke free in January 2016, according to police.