Ride a horse up a hill and it climbs at a canter where it used to drop to a slow walk. Hold Shift on the way up and it goes one pace faster, a gallop on any hill it will canter up and faster than you can sprint on foot. Pushing it uphill tires it quicker, and a tired horse only trots. It also reads a hill over its whole length now, not from the patch of ground under its belly.
Take the bow on horseback and hold right mouse: your rider draws for real in the saddle, back and arms turning into the shot and the bow arm out toward the horse’s head, while the seat and the feet in the stirrups stay put. Let go at full draw and the arrow flies. If you look more than about 35 degrees off the horse’s line, the body stops turning but the arrow still goes where you look.
The horse sounds like one now. Its shod hooves ring on stone and no two hits land alike, it answers your whistle with a soft nicker, and after a hard gallop it blows.
