I am a relatively new to RDO (only level 18 so far), and I spend a lot of time in races. At the moment, my main horse for both horse racing and free-roam is the fully-bonded Ultimate EditionThoroughbred. He is a good boy, though not so brave next to predators or maneuverable, like TB horse from a single, but as far as I understand, this is normal for online - horses here are not as accurate and obidient.
I’ve noticed before that barely broken / bought horses have moments when they don’t want to move forward and make a few small circles in one direction or another to calm down. This happens with horses in real life, called the "volt" - a maneuver that allows you to calm horse down a little. In free roam, my TB had a couple of moments when he began to be stubborn and do these circles, but this was only at low levels of bonding and only a couple of times. The problem is that in racing mode he begins to do this almost constantly: at a certain moment, he simply stops obeying and starts to dart from side to side or run in circles instead of moving forward and it takes enough time and effort to calm him down.
I could blame the controllers for everything, but this never happens in single or free roam. Although I hunt with a lasso and almost always maneuver the same horse with same handling at high speed, just like in horse racing. In addition, my horse is not afraid of guns, so it's not about shooting from other players, they may not be there at all when he freaks out.
Is such horse behavior a glitch? Are there any ways to avoid or quickly stop this? Or is it some kind of individual feature of temper of a particular horse and I should choose another steed for racing?
