User blog comment:Blood Reaper/Todd Howard Hinting at Future DLC's and Patches/@comment-67.234.62.46-20120224005524/@comment-72.138.220.102-20120228162548

Horses have little uses in game. Youve only been able to give one good use(which i have to say i could car less about reaching the big P early) but let me add a use myself and its early traveling. Even that quickly becomes obsolete as it becomes far more efficient to fast travel to locations which are very close.(especialy since you can fast travel to all the hold capitals without having been there) Horses fast travel with you and like the first anon said there is no option to stable your horse. When in combat you have to get off you horse and then fight. There is no mounted combat and if there was there are no mounted enemies to speak of. Also, when in a fight the horses, since theyre so huge tend to just get in the way of the action which I would prefer to do myself. Or they run into an outnumbered fight and get themelves killed before I can get a clean shot or strike(thats just wasting 1000 septims early in the game)(when i was on horseback riding to High Hrothgar i passed that tower and bridge just north of the Throat and dismounted to fight the sentry and before I know it my horse ignores this guy and gallops right up the tower and gets killed by the bandits) Followers and horses are another porblem. If you choose to have a follower(which by the way you can dismiss at any time unlike a horse) they get left in the dust or you slow down to accomadate them which defeats the purpose of having a horse all together. I could go on but my last point will be that at my current level I can sprint longer than a horse. Now that I have a high stamina (and i dont even focus on stamina) I can sprint for a period of time that matches a horse but not only that I can regenerate my stamina faster than the horse can and then sprint ten seconds after I ran out of stamina.