» Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:13 pm
Your horse will normally fast travel with you. If you want to adventure without your horse for a time while using fast travel, here is what I would do:
Fast travel to the place where you got the horse so the horse is at 'home'. Then carefully steal another horse briefly without getting caught. That will convince your horse that you no longer want them. As a result, your horse will wander home (already there in this case) and no longer travel with you. Neither will the stolen horse. When you want to resume traveling with your horse, simply return to them, mount them and all is good.
Notes on horse thieving: Even the horse you steal will 'report' you if he sees you. The best way to steal a horse is to use a 'command creature' spell (a low level one is fine since horses are very low level) to coax the horse away from curious eyes. Then go into sneak mode and from behind the horse and undetected, mount the horse.
This all sounds kind of complex, but with a touch of practice is fast, easy and slick.