The trainer is getting something of a reputation for runaway horses.
She started speaking slowly but picked up speed like a runaway horse.
She wasn't going to be able to divert the runaway horse.
But at the moment I had no thought save to stop a runaway horse.
A week later the two were reported to have stopped a runaway horse.
He rushed across my path with arms extended and open hands, as one might try to stop a runaway horse.
He is a wild spirit, I replied, a runaway horse.
No, the children were almost run over by runaway horses!
I have never seen anyone flattened by a runaway horse and cart.
In the case of the runaway horses, something had apparently startled them, and the two simply decided to head back.