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On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 7:02:40 PM UTC-5, Alanrco wrote:
> As the title. It is my avatar's horse and not a stolen one. This has only 
> started to happen since I installed Dawnguard. Also for some strange reason 
> my horse is now brown and not brown and white when I purchased it. I 
> repeat - it still is my avatar's horse. I will take some time to follow it 
> to see where it does eventually end up, if anywhere. Guess it's going to be 
> a long walk :)
> 
> Couldn't find anything on the web about this
> 
> Alan

I've owned seven horses by level 50.  Three were killed, foolishly either taking on a dragon or in once case falling off a cliff.  Latest was Frost.  She was a little bit too aggressive, so when clearing out Faldar's Tooth we (Frost, Lydia and I) cleared out the bears and wolves in the area and then we left Frost off the road and halfway back to Merryfair Farm. When we returned Frost was gone. And to my great disappointment no where in the area, and did not show when we fast traveled to Whiterun stables, or her little stall in Lakeview, or Black Briar lodge, where of course she came from.  Went back to search the area where we left her, and find nothing after an hour of real time traipsing through the woods.  Crap.
     I have horses in stables in Markarth, Katla's, and (somewhat inexplicably)on the trail to Skyborn Alter. These are my purchased horses, they bear my name, and all wandered or died and returned or respawned after I had purchased another horse.
     It looks like you can own multiple horses but only one at a time is your "main" horse.  So, riding a horse that is not your main horse but was purchased or given to you is not stealing, but also it is not going to stay with you.
     In my case, does this mean that Frost is still alive?  I don't think so. Since I didn't kill Frost she might respawn, like the others.
     Which horse is now my main horse?  No idea.  The chestnut one isn't and neither is the black and white dappled one.  Haven't tracked down the one on the path near Skyborn.  
     I believe I have two choices.  Buy a new horse (this is getting expensive...), which I have of course done before, or kill all the others except one and see if that works.
     Before Frost,however, no one would sell me a horse, they said none were available, but of course I would be looking at an unowned, saddled horse in front of me.
     One time I road my horse off the glacier east of Winterhold.  I lived but the horse died.  It was 'wanderer'.  But surprisingly, on my return to Whiterun stables, about four days later in the game, she was there and did not wander.  Sadly that Chestnut mare got fried by an unusually stubborn Elder Dragon.

SO, your on your own when it comes to horses in Elder Scrolls v.

Tigre.