Keeping Your Mount Alive

[StreamOfTheSky]

Being a quadrupred helps a lot with that problem, though.

 

[Dandu]

Even light barding also can swiftly put a mount over light load.

So we'll need sterioids.

 

[Andras]

See if you can take this feat to boost your mount some:
Wild Cohort

Speaking of barding, you might want to have it enchanted with the Easy Travel enhancement from MIC.

There's also the Collar of Healing that gives you a swift action heal for your mount only that heals 50hp. MIC89

the BattleBridle gives you a bonus to Ride and the feat Mounted Combat (or Ride-by Attack if you already have Mounted Combat) MIC151