Runaway Oxen

This currently doesn't concern Sir Paulito, who is one of the knights personally assigned to castle gaurd duty by the king himself.
Sir Paulito is only concerned with saving his own skin. He's currently being riding an oxen towards three story cliff overlooking a rock quarry.

He had been on gaurd duty when he had seen a young girl clutching the back of the oxen as it ran wildly around the castle. He had leapt onto the back of the creature and tossed the girl into a passing hay bale. But now the ox was going too fast and the ground was too rocky for him to jump off and garruntee his own safety.

Sir Paulito could draw his own weapon and slay the beast in a manner that could hopefully get it to slow down. But the ox was a valued animal. With the predations of the dragon and the beasts needed by the five thousand warriors, every labor animal was valued.
This didn't leave Sir Paulito much choice. Maybe he could use the straps and bits of his armor as a sort of rope to reign in the animal or at least steer it away from the quarry. But it would be difficult to loop anything around the animal's neck.

What does Sir Paulito do now?

1. Sir Paulito attempts to look his chest armor and strap around the ox's neck and see if neck pressue would slow it down.
2. Sir Paulito realizes injuring the animal's leg might slow it down and he wouldn't have to kill it.
3. Sir Paulito makes a jump for it anyway, risking death.
4. Something else happens.

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