Carriage horse breaks free in city streets again

Annapolis Carriage handlers need to learn to hold their horses.

For the second time in less than a month, a buggy-hauling horse broke free of its handler Friday and galloped through downtown streets. Sir Shad was spooked by a truck blocking Prince George Street and took off at a gallop toward East Street with no driver, taking passengers along for the ride.

Charles Goldblum, an Annapolis resident who witnessed the incident, described a scene straight out of a movie, in which the coachman was thrown from the carriage and passengers, including several children, were "screaming their heads off." The horse stopped only when he...