What do you feed your competition horse?

Why do you want to know? Each horse is an individual and should be fed as such, just because someone feeds their eventer one thing doesn't mean that will suit the next eventer.

I currently feed chaff and fibre nuts, with cortaflex, a balancer, linseed oil and cider vinegar.
 
Nothing, 'cos she's fat despite working quite hard 6x week.

Grazing muzzle when out on scrub grazing, weighed and soaked hay overnight. That's it. I'm probably going to re-introduce a balancer soon but need to figure out what one I'll be using as the previous one did her feet no favours.

On the plus side she's actually finally losing weight - grazing muzzle was the final piece of the puzzle for us :).
 
I feed my event mare chaff, pony nuts and blue chip pro balancer. It's done wonders for her condition and over all healthy glow/ shiny coat. Even though she's quite a blood type and majority TB, now that our grass has come through she's holding her weight very well and is not on a high quantity of hard feed but I adapt this regularly depending on how she's looking and her energy levels!
 
Poorest poor doer exracer competing AM, schooling PSG+. Barefoot. Hot head. Out all day every day, stabled over night every night.

Slobbermash
Linseed
Oats
Readigrass
Fibre nuggets

All fat, no fizz.

Lubrisyn
Suppleaze gold
Mega build
Protexin acid ease
Sulcrafate

Happy joints and happy tummy.
 
Mine isn't so much a competition horse as an all rounder we hunt in winter and in summer do dressage, fun rides and some very tiny jumping. She is a terrible poor doer, a fussy eater and a stress head. She gets copra, alfa a molasses free, linseed, forage plus performance balancer and aloe vera. She also gets crazy quantities of hay (haylage gives her the squits! )
 
Mitavite promita (for the protein and fat and is a complete feed), and show primer (more fat, magnesium and ecinacea sorry about the spelling). Enough meadow chaff to mix.

A senior blend of herbs for immune system, tumeric + pepper + oil, and cortaflex.

Horse is out competing most weekends and in heavy jumping work, sj hunting and Derby's. Is a good doer ISH but he's old so needs even more support from his feed for healthy muscles and weight.

24/7 paddocked, no stabling.

Big mound of haylege in paddock each day.
 
Elementary level warmblood, barefoot, 4 days schooling a week, 2 days hacking. Out 24/7 with poor to no pasture but constant access to quality grass round bale (shedded)

Twice a day
250g Lucerne chaff
1.5kg whole oats
1 cup Full Fat Soy
1 cup sunflower seeds
Coarse salt
Quality vit/min supplement, designed for horses on no/poor pasture
 
My complicated mare chokes on hay. In need / hard work at pre novice level
She is out all morning
Gets 4-5x Luci Brix from simple systems, 2 pm & 3 night
Oats mixed with hops from brewery 4 scoops over 4 feeds
2 scoops of fast fibre soaked with 2 scoops of grass nuts mixed
 
My complicated mare chokes on hay. In need / hard work at pre novice level
She is out all morning
Gets 4-5x Luci Brix from simple systems, 2 pm & 3 night
Oats mixed with hops from brewery 4 scoops over 4 feeds
2 scoops of fast fibre soaked with 2 scoops of grass nuts mixed with chaff over 3 feeds
And that's her fibre ration covered!
As the grass comes through better she will need a bit less - for which the bank balance will be grateful 😄
 
All the grass he could want during the day.
About 8kg of haylage a night (he often leaves a lot of it)
2 feeds a day - both have 1 scoop of cool fibre and 1/2 a scoop of slow release conditioning cubes from Spillers
3 scoops of biotin for supplements in morning feed.

He got more hard feed over winter as I was worried about him losing weight and thank god he actually gained rather than lost. He has lost it all now though and is looking very good just needs more muscle.
 
Mine were on Cavalor feed I was importing from Europe at huge cost and they loved it but I recently felt they were missing just that extra sparkle. Used all their supplements which are so expensive and think I was actually over doing things. Got a top independent nutritionist do a diet plan for every horse. In space of weeks they look beyond amazing and actually made everything much simpler for me. They are all on more or less the same which is Speedi beet, Cavalor fibre force (will replace with Agribobs musli when my pallet is used up), micronised linseed, as much hay as they will eat and they have direct access from their stables to their turnout so they are out grazing 18 hours a day or so with hay in their fields. Supplement wise I use Mushroom matrix for joints as used by all the top show jumpers it is amazing, copper, pro hoof, Lysine which is the amino acid most horses are deficient in and is necessary for building muscle, and table salt. This diet is fed to my brood mares, my 2 year old stallion prospect who is off to licensing in Germany and my young horses who are in work. It was a great measure to see the change in them all as I have a young mare in work with a professional who is being fed the old diet and there is a noticeable difference between the horses at home on the new diet and how the mare looks. Have asked that her feed is also changed.
 
Feed according to size, workload and temperament. Doesn't matter if they are a competition horse or a happy hacker - or a field companion. The basic principles are the same. No two horses are alike, no two solutions alike (as I think this thread shows!) Absolutely don't change your feed solutions just because someone else with a competition animal feeds differently. I've had competition animals (Sj's then eventers) for the last 8 years - every one needs an individual feed solution. Some live in air. Some roach up at the slightest provocation and struggle to keep weight on. One is barley & sugar sensitive. (Didn't really believe that existed until I got one...). Don't worry about what others do - do what works for you.
 
my open tea chaser is currently on ...
competition mix,
sugar beet,
micronised linseed, and
alpha oil chaff,
-twice a day

lives out and ab lib grass/ hay
 
Wow what a huge variety! I was interested in knowing whether the same things would crop up regularly but it's actually very varied. I spent months trying to find the right combo for my horse, and I still wonder whether he has an allergy to oats. I feed Allen & page power and performance, falcon oat and barley free, and happy hoof! Plus a joint supplement recommended by my vet called Ekyflex. Along with ad lib hay and approx 10 hours grass turnout each day, competing SJ at the weekends.
 
Horse in medium work schooling elementary/medium level dressage. Can be prone to dropping condition in winter. Having said that he's come out of the winter in fab condition and was thinking he looks too chunky so now cutting down a little.

Soaked grass pellets
Linseed
Agrobs chaff
Salt
Equinatural pro sorb plus
Ad lib haylage.
 
Our two are currently on a scoop of Spillers Racehorse mix and a scoop of Red Mills Care Cubes both morning and evening, and a scoop of soaked sugarbeet with Gastromin at lunchtime, plus hay morning and evening and 3-4 hours turnout at the grass after their lunch.

Both are about 3 weeks away from racing, would say about 70% fit right now. Starting their double heat workouts on Thursday so will be doing 2 slow miles and 2 faster miles per week on top of their daily jogging (Stevie gets a day off at the grass after workout days, Cassius gets one day off a week at the grass).

Here's Stevie condition-wise from Sunday. Haven't got any body shots of Cassius minus his rug.



They also have rock salt licks in their stables, otherwise no other supplements. I used a magnesium supplement a couple of summers ago for a horse that wouldn't relax at the track but haven't used that since as this lot are pretty chilled out.
 
Horse events at Novice, dressage to Novice (attempting Elem next time he feels like being sound on dressage comp day), SJ to Newcomers. Breeding unknown but general consensus is about 3/4-7/8 TB.

He gets a bit of chaff and some pony nuts, the fat lump :D
 
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