The sight of a bloodied grey horse and his black colleague, loose and running free through the streets of central London on Wednesday morning, felt almost otherworldly.
The grey, Vida, one of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment’s 14 trumpet horses, was filmed galloping through the city becoming progressively more lame. Covered in his own blood, he looked like an extra from War Horse. It wasn’t long before he became a meme; someone on social media posted a pub map of the route he took down from Belgravia to Limehouse.
But inside the tightly ordered world of the Household Cavalry, the incident during watering order — the daily morning exercise — was no joke. Four soldiers and one member of the public were injured and
