Low energy feed for lightly worked spooky good doer with poor concentration

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As title really! 15.2 ISH 7yo doing light schooling and hacking 5 days a week. In at night with ad lib hay, out on reasonable pasture for 10 hours a day. Can work nicely but is unpredictable and spooky, can be quite opinionated and finds it hard to concentrate.
Back/teeth/saddle check all done recently, no health issues.
Currently on livery and fed a local feed merchants horse and pony mix and NAF Magic (and looking a bit too well on it at the moment!) I would class him as a fairly good doer. He is food orientated and very much looks forward to feed time!

I can provide my own feed and have some ideas of what kind of feeds I'd like to use, id like something not fattening that will help him concentrate and reduce the spookiness if at all possible, and so I thought I'd ask what you guys think?
Any suggestions?
Many thanks in advance
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I'd definitely drop the mix and go with Firewall's recommendation.

If your horse will eat a feed of primarily chaff, then Spillers Cool Fibre is a good one as it has pellets in it for interest. Or Hi-Fi Molasses Free if you want really low starch and sugar. That way you can give a reasonable sized feed so he won't feed cheated :-)

I feed Top Spec Lite Balancer to my good doer for the vits and mins.
 
Drop the mix I would be inclined to feed just fibre, agree hifi mollasses free is a great feed if you just want to give them something to eat without the sugar and calories, I feed this to my good doer who is off work at the moment.
 
Thanks for replies so far, you're all thinking along the same lines as me!
Reading various other posts on here people tend to have concerns over Alfalfa sending some horses a bit loopy, but it seems to be in most chaffs in one form or another, and avoiding nuts because you "don't really know what is in them".
Has anyone experience of a horse that sounds like mine, and what they have done/avoided to get their feed "right" for the horse?
I'm aware I may have to do some chopping and changing before I get his feed right, and that certain things work for some horses but not for others, so am just trying to minimise it if I can as he can be such a stress-head!!!
 
I'd feed a handful of high fibre nuts and a scoop of plain magnesium oxide (which I believe is basically all that's in NAF Magic, except I think the NAF stuff isn't as pure as the 99% purity stuff you can buy from somewhere like Natural Horse Supplies). I wouldn't bother with a balancer, IMHO good doers don't really need them.
 
In planning in moving onto Mag Ox if acalmer is still needed when I've finished this tub of Magic, sorry should have mentioned that!
 
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