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Yes, we all agree it's possible. And depending on the apocalypse in question, that it would make a comeback. If you scroll back, the question was if horses are cheap. They are not. They weren't back in the day, either, but there was no alternative.
A note on shoes - I'm not a farrier, but my understanding is the need for shoes and trimming depends on how much natural wear the hooves get. A wild stallion is constantly digging around and running over rocks, so it doesn't need it, and back in the day, a London coach horse on hard streets might have needed a shoe to prevent wear. If your horse spends most of it's day stabled conveniently near where you live, so you can ride it at a moment's notice, it will probably need that kind of care. Ditto for a soft pasture. Farriers make decent money now, and if demand was through the roof like that, they'd charge a king's ransom.
If the local population is low enough, and you're willing to give up living in one place (and the technology that enables), you could go full nomadic pastoralist. Then, sure, you just migrate wherever grass naturally is, and you probably don't need shoes or a stablehand. They still don't seem to be cheap that way; the size of your herd is the entire measure of wealth in those societies. If I had to guess why, it's because whatever remote valley is hard to defend against rustlers and predators.