How can I stop this horse from following me?

The system seems to think that you own the horse now.

Your options are:

• Buy your own horse, so that your own horse re-appears instead of that horse.

• Load the save file where the horse was not following you yet...

• Kill it! _{Bonus points from me if you do it with falling damage but manage to survive yourself, then it gets killed by accident... :)}

Look, guys, I know how much we all love murder. But in the interests of animal welfare, let me suggest an alternative that does not involve hurting the poor thing.

If you want to get rid of an automatically following horse, whether it's your own or one the game just thinks is your own, you can simply get on a horse that isn't yours.

This does count as stealing, but if you get away they should forget about it. Getting on that horse will make it the active horse. Once you get off the horse, it will run back to its righteous owner, making it disowned, but the game won't recognise your old one as the active one until you get back on it.

Your "own" horse will return to the stables it originated from.

Horses like to fight. Pick a fight with a dragon and let the horse be the fodder.