R1C animals get skittish

Saxton "Honda Tadakatsu" Hale addressed his troops. He was looking at a couple dozen yakuza guys in bathrobes standing out in the field, plus his trusty friend-sidekick and a couple of horses. He would've liked to be riding a horse, although he was already the tallest and thus most important person in the group, but animals usually got really skittish around him so it wouldn't have worked out.