One of the issues for horses will be fodder. In World War I, the British standard for feeding a working horse each day ranged from 21 pounds of fodder (for a pack horse or a riding horse of less than 15.1 hands) to 33 pounds (for a heavy draft horse), with roughly half being oats and half being chaff (a 50/50 mix of hay and straw). Horses carry about 20% of their body weight, so a pair of 1,000 pound horses will carry a 200 pound rider on one horse, 5 days of fodder for the two horses on the other horse, and nothing else. Any equipment carried for the rider will cut into the number of days before the horses need provisioning. Wagons can help with that, but then you're slower and more limited in the terrain you can cross. Don't get me wrong, horses are still likely to be easier to keep "fueled" than petrol vehicles (although wood gas conversions are always a possibility...), but they'll still have more logistical issues than on foot or bicycle.
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