Has anyone here grown sainfoin for horses?

[Celtic Fringe]

We have a couple of paddocks that need re-seeded. Has anyone any experience of including some sainfoin in a seed mix? I understand that it can take a year to establish and doesn't withstand heavy grazing but that horses love it? Our soil is alkaline and not normally prone to waterlogging (excepting this winter!).
Any info from the UK or other countries with using it in grazing would be helpful. Thanks!

 

[Brownmare]

Not for horses but we are about to grow some for cattle this year. I would be concerned about the protein levels for horses unless they were in hard work or growing. Also I think horses would graze it too close to the ground and would kill it which would make it an expensive annual plant! Try Cotswold Seeds for advice, I have always found them very helpful.

 

[Celtic Fringe]

Many thanks for your help. The horses here are a greedy bunch so grazing it to ground level might be a problem unless we can grown some at one end of the field and fence it off before it gets totally eaten away! I'm mostly just trying to introduce a wider range of grasses, herbs etc as some of the paddocks were previously used for grazing cattle. I'll talk with Cotswold Seeds as I see they have quite a wide range of seed mixes available.