Feed for cob type in medium work / competition ?

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Looking for feed suggestions for my horse please!
He is 11 years old, 15hh lightish cob type. He is worked on average 6 times per week, with a mixture of jumping, schooling, fast hacking and canter work. Schooling usually 30-45 mins as he finds it mentally tiring, hacking 1hr+ mainly trot and canter. Canter work once every 5-7 days when fields allow.
Has been competing every week / fortnight all summer at 80cm sj, hunter trials, ode and a few drsg tests, and will now spend the winter drsg & sj interspersed with hunting.

I'm looking for a feed to provide him with enough 'oomph' and stamina for the work required, particularly the fast work, without making him silly, as he can be quite spooky-sharp at times. He is a good doer in summer but can drop off a bit in winter, so even though he is a cob type, something 'conditioning' isn't a total no-go, although I am not primarily 'feeding for condition'.
He has been on D&H staypower muesli which seemed pretty good so may go back to that, but just seeing if there are better alternatives out there!

Ideas welcome! Thank you :)
 
My old mare was in the same build and in the same sort of work as yours but mostly show jumped and could drop off in winter. To be honest rightly or wrongly she was on hi fi and D&H comp mix pretty much all her life with different levels depending on what she was doing and time of year. Knowing what i know now im not sure i would keep it the same as i feed my wb a high fibre, low starch diet but all horses are different and i never had a days problem on that diet.
If its working then stick with it, in the winter when i wanted more weight on i fed haylege along side hay and some readi grass, seemed to do the trick. Although not overly spooky she could be very sharp with a mean buck so that seemed to work through winter. In summer she was on good grazing for at least 8 hours a day but would still get a small hard feed and had enough oomph on that.
 
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