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Racehorses in Training Top-Quality Rations Also Offer Best Chance for Success Need More Grain Than Horses Performing in Most Other Disciplines A section showcasing products and services for the Thoroughbred industry www.bloodhorse.com/tradezone By Tracy Gantz Photos by Anne M. Eberhardt Forage As with feeding any type of horse, Balance Is Key to trainers and nutritionists build a program around the forage, or hay. They generally add a grain-based feed that will supple- ment the nutrition the horse gets from the Proper Feed Program forage. Because of their daily fitness gal- lops coupled with the speed required in breezes and races, racehorses in training Top-quality rations also offer best chance for success need more grain than horses performing in most other disciplines. acehorse barns at feeding time California Thoroughbred meetings. “You Amy Gill has a Ph.D. in equine nutrition might look like assembly lines look at horses, and you see the horses that and exercise physiology and is an equine as the cart heads down the shed- you want to carry more weight vs. the ones nutrition consultant based in Lexington. R row and grooms scoop grain into that are carrying too much weight.” She believes in not only a proper balance buckets. However, the most successful Feeding Thoroughbreds in training in any horse’s feeding program, but the operations are the ones constantly mak- must be balanced by how much work the importance of hay in the diet. ing individual adjustments. horse is being asked to do. Those in heavy “We like to try to use the best-quality “You feed horses a lot through your eye,” training or near a race will be eating much forage we can find,” Gill said. “Preferably, said John Sadler, who is at or near the top more than horses just beginning to train, you’d want something that’s a little less of the trainer’s list at all major Southern laid up by injury, or being rested. mature, has a little less fiber because we’re Feeding Thoroughbreds must be balanced by how much work the horse is being asked to do 3198 BloodHorse.com O OCTOBER 30, 2010 Trade Zone Advertising Section trying to get as many calories into these horses as possible.” The bulk fiber found in some hay doesn’t help a horse nutritionally, said Gill. She likes to see racehorses get some nutrients from the forage instead of completely from the grain ration. “The horse is an herbivore—it has to eat forage,” Gill said. “It was more designed to eat forage than any type of grain.” Thus, a horse’s system can more easily metabolize nutrients found in forage than those in grain. Gill recommends alfalfa for its nutri- tional value in addition to the timothy hay commonly seen at the racetrack. “Alfalfa is the best forage product avail- able to a horse in race training,” she said. Sadler feeds three types of hay—alfal- fa, timothy, and oat hay. Horses get their nutrition from the alfalfa and the oat hay, while the timothy gives them something to nibble on all day. “Timothy is like salad,” said Sadler. “They can eat as much as they want. It’s Racehorses in training need more grain than horses performing in most other disciplines really in there to give them something to do all day, something to pick at.” has a seven-furlong training track. Horses since 1981. Like Sadler, Antonsen feeds Alfalfa and timothy also play roles in get up to breezing three-eighths or a half- alfalfa for the protein and timothy as a fill the feeding program at John Harris’ Harris mile before being sent to the racetrack. food. Farms near Coalinga, Calif. A major breed- Per Antonsen, who is in charge of the “Timothy is something to entertain ing and training facility in the state, Harris training facility, has been with Harris them,” Antonsen said. “I like to feed alfal- “I have been using Equine Perform on the horses in my racing stable for the last six months. The key benefit I associate with this product is the immune system enhancement of the Noni plant equineperform base, which makes it totally unique in the marketplace. 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In fact, alfalfa has “It’s much more conducive to getting other advantages. Gill them to eat more if it’s on the ground,” said that the calcium in alfalfa can help Gill said. “How we feed these horses is buffer stomach acid to help prevent ulcers as important as what we feed. They are and that alfalfa has a high calorie content. grazing herbivores designed to eat on a Plus, horses like it better than other hays continuing basis.” and will eat more of it. Timothy hay is often not cut early Grain enough to give the optimum nutrition, The next component of feeding race- said Gill, because the yield improves with horses in training is the grain. Some cutting it later. training stables buy one of the commer- The protein content in timothy can be cial products on the market balanced for Cellarator® feed supplements consist as little as 6-7%. Protein levels in hay can horses at the track, while others customize of highly concentrated nucleotides, the vary widely, and it is important to look for their own. basic building blocks of DNA and RNA. a consistent level so that the balance with Harris Farms works with a nutritionist, Our exclusive ingredient, Cell-rate, is the grain remains the same. Dr. Jack Algeo, to design its own blend. an all-natural, cutting-edge formula, that Alfalfa fed on dairy farms in California, David McGlothlin, the horse division man- can help promote natural cell growth to for example, can have ager, said that Harris a protein rate of up to support your animals’ need for optimum “Timothy is like salad, has three different performance and health. 23% and high calcium customized feeds— levels also. one for breeding On the ranch, in the “What you want they can eat as much stock, one for foals show ring or on the track, to look for is some- as they want.” and young horses, Cellarator® helps your thing that’s in the 14- and a third for the animals maximize their 15% protein range,” JOHN SADLER horses in training. potential with more than 15 Gill said, “maybe a “The training ra- years of research. little stemmier than what you would find tion has a fat content of 8.1%, while the fat them feeding to the high-end producing content of both the mare and foal ration is dairy cows. You do want to have a certain 4%,” McGlothlin said. amount of good-quality fiber as well.” McGlothlin said that the training ration Unfortunately, high-quality alfalfa isn’t contains 12% more digestible energy than • Muscle Mass always readily available at a decent price the mare and foal rations. throughout the country. But Gill feels that “You need the higher energy for horses • Immunity the advantages alfalfa brings to the race- in training,” he said. • Digestive Efficiency horse diet are worth the cost. The protein percentage also differs, with • Stress Reduction Dandy Products, Inc. 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The young, growing horses need the Antonsen begins breaking horses at 18 down the colic.” extra protein, as do mares that are raising months of age, and he gives those horses Sadler receives young horses in his barn foals and/or are in foal. about six pounds of the training ration a after they have undergone a breaking and Like Sadler, Antonsen feeds the in- day. He then turns them out in pasture training regimen similar to that at Harris training horses individually, and he ad- until they are ready to begin serious train- Farms. He will confer with farm personnel justs the amount of grain fed depending ing, at which point they receive two to four to see what the horse has been eating up on the amount of activity he asks the pounds a day, depending on the time of to that point.
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