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Savage!
So a character riding a dragon who says 'Hey, let's go attack THAT guy' has now either a) denied the dragon its attack if the dragon does as he suggests, or b) been granted the ability to deny courses of action to the dragon by suggesting them.
Intelligent mounts are explicitly noted as always acting 'uncontrolled'.
The way I would interpret the rules is that you would use the 'controlled' option to get your mount to the point you want on the battlefield. Once you are in location, you switch to 'uncontrolled' and at that point the mount's instincts take over: a war trained mount will fight for you, whilst a regular mount will flee.
Of course, that doesn't help on the ranger question...
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