I have been trying to use actual money to buy ingots to buy coffees so I can use my earned boost to nest of its abilities but am still missing most horses    I have even tried treats and petting first but nope they run away…its extremely frustrating. 

Yeah, unfortunately I WISHED this thing was worded better, as it does not prevent horses from actually running itself, but running away before you approach them.

Yeah well sadly it does not do that either 😆  Ive had multiple run before the approach and multiple after so it basically does nothing 😅 

I’m glad you asked about this, Taurean, because I just ran into the same thing. At least I know now that it doesn’t do either of the things I expected it to do… 😆

same thing happened to me also when it was active

I've long since done all the Exploration achievements, so I no longer have access to that particular boost and going off the knowledge of what it is supposed to do.

If it actually does happen with the boost active? Make a bug report about it and provide screenshots with the boost being active and horses still running away prior to approaching.