A riderless horse is a single horse without a rider and with boots reversed in the stirrups, which sometimes accompanies a funeral procession. The horse, sometimes caparisoned in black, follows the ca
A riderless horse named Sergeant York during the funeral procession for the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, with President Reagan's boots reversed in the stirrups.
Riderless jousting horse of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria in his funeral procession, 1623 (etching with hand coloring by Jacob Franquart)