Energy without excitability!!

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Hanging on!!

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I have owned my horse for a year. He is 15 years old and very low mileage as his previous owner did barely anything with him. He is 16hh and half warm blood plus a quarter welsh D/ thoroughbred. He is a very good doer and is now fit! However, we went out with the blood hounds for the second time yesterday and I literally was hanging on and had lost my brakes on a few occasions! He behaved like a delinquent and was very excitable. He is currently on a competition mix and applechaff. I need to feed him something for energy but to minimise the excitability! All ideas gratefully received!!
 
Spillers Response cubes. I fed them to my nut of a hunter (WBxTB) and they gave him the energy to hunt but minimised his stupidity. He was also a good doer.
 
Well I would sack off the competition mix and the apple chaff as they are both full of sugar! (having not come across an unmolassed comp mix) The same with spillers response- I could see the hoof bruising from when I started feeding that at one point.

Plain grass chaff and/or unmolassed sugar beet, oats (for the shorter term energy), micronised linseed (for longer term energy)
 
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