SINGAPORE, March 3 -- Residents in Pasir Ris, Singapore, were treated to an unscheduled - and rather majestic - parade this morning as two horses trotted calmly through the neighbourhood, drawing startled looks, nervous laughter and plenty of smartphone videos.

According to Singapore news siteMothership, the pair wandered along a park connector, drifted past cars and eventually found themselves "taken into custody", a phrase not usually applied to large, bewildered equines.

In one clip submitted by a Mothership reader, a brown horse wandered onto the road at Elias View as a man tried some gentle persuasion.

"Slowly, slowly. Come here," he coaxed, before adding that he "hoped to bring [the horse] in". The horse, unbothered, kept strolli...