It's isn't clear from the photos of course, but my point was that the horses in front had their ears backs and, I'm guessing, heads cocked enough to the side to see her behind them. They probably heard her before the humans did.
Imagine it the other way, with a presumably lower caste horse in front ambling and high status animal in back scrambling in agitation. In that case, I would think the animal in front would instinctively take off too.
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