Horses cannot be ridden when spawned in another horse using spawn egg, appears to also happen naturally (only found with donkeys so far) and mules as a result cannot be ridden at all (and any horses or donkeys resulting from breeding
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This issue is a duplicate of MC-61535. It has been linked to the original bugreport.
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