LOL this kills me, Ive heard so many times, that you can only use certain colored horses. Its sheeeeet. you can get any color horse. Its just that peoples ubery mind cant wrap around the fact that just because you cant mount a black ornate chain bridle, that a black horse doesnt exist
They do work on various servers, both 0.4.3 and 0.4.4,
They are set very funny , in that they do run WAAAY too quick, faster than my 32 mb card can attempt to render , even in kunark zones.
Solution to both of these problems, is use rope bridles instead of chain, and if the rope is still too fast, then set yourself to walk, and it should slow you down a little as well.
Unfortunately, i dont have much of an awnser to your dilema, But just to clarify, EQ live added horses with SoL expansion, almost a year later added PoP, then 5 months later LoY.