NEW YORK (AP)—A horse and a taxicab tried to negotiate the same Manhattan corner at the same time early today and the horse lost.
The horse pulling a hansom cab was about to turn left from Seventh Avenue onto 52nd Street when the taxi, making the same turn, cut the horse off, leaving the high stepper's right front hoof stuck fast in the taxi's rear bumper, police said.
A fire rescue unit came and extricated the horse, who stood patiently by, according to John Driscoll of the rescue company. "He was a good horse," said Driscoll, who didn't get the horse's name.
Police didn't have it either, or the name of the cab and hansom drivers. It was just one of those unusual street occurrences, they said.
The horse did sustain a bad cut just above his hoof, but not bad enough to warrant a horse ambulance, Driscoll said.
The rescue team bandaged him up "just like a human" and sent him on his way.
"He just drove—or I should say rode—off into the sunset," Driscoll said.
-AP-NY-05-10 05:16 EDT
