If I named him I would feel even worse when he eventually dies

. If I could name my horse his name would be horsy #32 at least until it was time for horsy #33.
I only road stolen horses.... till I had 100,000+ gold.... now I buy horses to make travel faster. When they die... well I have something to spend 1k gold on. Keeps the economy going. And I like to think that maybe the enemy that killed my horse might have got a lucky shot on me, so in a way the horse saved my life... or maybe one of them did.