I Like Horses

[Enkidoh]

I agree with Jynx - this is Final Fantasy where the mount of choice is always the chocobo, the series (and effectively SE's company) mascot. In FF games horses are usually rarely depicted, other than for Odin's mount Sleipnir (in keeping with his Norse myth roots), or occasionally a generic enemy (FFI's very low level 'Mad Pony').

Like Jynx I think the game is starting to suffer from 'mount bloat' where we are inundated with strange mount after strange mount with little regard for consistency or even logic as to why we're even able to ride it. I know SE are trying to please everyone, and they're doing an amazing job, but it's getting to the stage where I have a mount list full of weird mounts I never actually ride. Less is more after all.

And as Sacchrin mentioned, lore wise horses are actually not native to Eorzea, only unicorns are and they're an endangered species. Hence why most horses you see here are magical entities like Sleipnir and the Primal ones. Although lore wise horses are slowly starting to trickle in from the Far Eastern nations where they're native to (Doma for instance), it's still stated that chocobos are preferable for Eorzean conditions, so I don't think we'll be seeing an actual living horse mount other than the Frontlines warhorse any time soon (may I be proven wrong though!).