1. But we located riderless horses nearby.

2. A neighbour's horse came galloping down the road, riderless.

3. For the Caparisoned horse in military funerals, see Riderless horse

4. The riderless horse is known as a Caparison, a custom that dates to the time of Genghis Khan.

5. A riderless horse (which may be Caparisoned in ornamental and protective coverings, having a detailed protocol of their own) is a single horse, without a rider, and with boots reversed in the stirrups, which sometimes accompanies a funeral procession

6. Astray (adv.) early 14c., o strai, "away from home; lost, wandering" (of cattle), borrowed and partially nativized from Old French estraie, past participle of estraier "Astray, riderless (of a horse), lost," literally "on stray" (see stray (v.))