I don't know why, but they do. There is an ultra-long pause before horse inventory opens, too, btw. Anyway, I've restarted from an earlier save a number of times, but maybe it's since installing Dawnguard I've had to do this over and over again and this last time when I realized my stuff had been deleted I was maybe two hours of playing later without having checked my horse's saddlebags. Dude, I love this mod, like I said in the comment version. If it comes down to it, I will just stop using the damn saddlebags except as temporary storage for things I can afford to lose. But among other things that would be hard to replace, I have now lost Chillrend. Like if I lost everything when I lost a horse I could understand, in the event I could retrieve the stuff going to the horse, but there's no lore-friendly explanation for this bug. Sorry for being irate, like I said, if I don't get any help I'm still using the mod, but I'm losing one hugely important feature. For the most part. I hate having to restart for some reason other than having died lol, and a bug I didn't notice that stole all my stuff including a sword I want to ramp up with another mod (maybe) that is unique, and probably about 500-700 encumbrence overall of stuff I wanted to flat out keep..... lol! again, sorry for being so irate. It gets old reloading and trying to figure out how far back I have to go to get my stuff back. I would realy, really appreciate it if you would supply a patch or something for me to download, or tell me what I'm doing wrong. While I'm at it, great job on the mod, great work, good stuff, and I do love it. Still trying to figure out how to use certain parts of it effectively, and I never get tired of modfiying my mods. Thanks a bunch!