A couple of things that I notice by studying the image. One, there's a rider mounted in the saddle. You can see the rider's knee, and black boots in the stirrups. This isn't an out-of-control animal. Also, the photo was taken using a long telephoto lens, which creates a very compressed depth of field. The crowd is not so tightly-packed, nor the wall behind nearly so close, as it would appear in person. It would feel a lot more open. The obscuration of the rider and the compressed depth of field combine to give an impression of a panicked horse in a close-packed crowd, neither of which was probably true.
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