I play the same world all the time and memorized where the horses spawn. So this time when I restarted my world over, all the horses were gone. All other mobs have soawned. No horses at all.
Environment
MacBook Pro
2.9GHz Intel Core i7
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB
What do you mean ? Using the same seed in 1.8.1 does not spawn horses like previous versions ?
Because world generation is not exactly the same from one version to another. For example, even if 1.8 had no new biomes, the 3 new types of stones are now influencing most of generated terrain, but with minimal visible differences from the outside.