Rush Hour on Abbey Road

HOT FLASH!!

At 7:13 am today, British Summer Time, there was a lull in the traffic noises below our fourth-story window, followed by the rhythmic clopping sounds of... could it be.... Horses?

A dash to the window provided me with a fine view of a troop of horses moving quickly up Abbey Road. The horses passed in groups of three, with a raincoated officer on the middle one, flanked by one on each side. They were going by at a pretty good clip, and there must have been at least 50 of them. They stretched from the beginning of our window-view to the end. They took up a whole lane. The traffic in the southbound lane was stopped completely.
There is a horse barracks here in St. John's Wood, over on Ordnance Hill near the "Hi" Street.
I walked passed it once. The gate was guarded by a guy in army camo fatigues with a rifle in his hands. It's good to know the horses are safe.