horse sporting

Ive just brought a 7 year old irish sports horse and shes rather skinny and i desperatly want her to put weight on so she looks and feels healthier and realy dont know what the best feed is yo give her, shes a beautiful mare and i know she will look lovely if i can just get her weight up, any ideas?

I agree with throwing out the "feed lots of grain" response.

It takes time to put weight on a horse and all changes in the diet must be made gradually due to the sensitivity of the equine digestive system. Your best bet is to provide her a minimum of 2% of her bodyweight in high quality forage. Hay should be the foundation of your horses diet and if it is of high quality, you should be able to get calories from there.

The next step is either a highly fortfied vitamin and mineral free choice mix, or a ration balancer. This will ensure that she is getting all of the essential vitamins, minerals, amino acids, etc. that are necessary for topline developement, immune function, and a long list of other benefits.

If more calories are needed at this point, you can either go with a fat supplement, or a balanced ration that is high in fat and fiber. This will allow for optimum digestive health and enough calories to sustain your sport horse.

Products that we use have all been from Buckeye Nutrition because they are fixed formula. Gro N Win is the ration balancer we use, and Cadence (Crude Protein 10, Crude Fat 10, Crude Fiber 10) or Cadence Ultra (Crude Protein 14, Crude Fat 14, Crude Fiber 14) are for higher working, hard-keeper type horses.

I would stay away from the "home-remedy" concoctions only because minerals are very touchy. One mineral, if fed in access can tie up another mineral, causing a deficiency pretty quick. There is a lot of research out there to ensure a balanced ration will supply nutrients in the correct levels for the best performance of your horse.

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Usually ,people who wants to have thrills adventure etc go for these kinds of sports ,horse racing ,wher the movement and results are fast, its a kind of addiction ,how to control it?

A psychological disorder is when there is a compulsive behaviour or addiction.Doing things for an occasional thrill is NOT a psychological disorder.If later is your definition of a disorder, then this planet is full of mental cases.
Life itself is a gamble baby!

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i have a friend who has a horse that does sporting. he gets out of control easily and he never wants to stop. he has become dangerous when she takes him to competitions, he tries to run into the audience and he bucks, crow hops, rears, pig-roots, and everything else you could think of. he has tipped while rearing a few times and he is becoming more and more uncontrollable. i have ridden him before and he was fine. but the next day when we went on a trail ride to see her friend she was riding him he ran out in front of a car, slammed her leg into a sign while trying to gallop off, ran into my horse and squished my leg, reared 7 times (nearly tipping once) and ran into a fence.

the bit doesn’t bother him at all. he knows what she is telling him what to do and when i rode him he was listening to my cues perfectly, but he gets over excited easily as he is a sporting horse. no matter how hard she pulls on the reins to stop him (circling him, stopping him etc.) he doesn’t listen. he does calm down but out of no were for no reason he crow hops and then try’s to bolt.

don’t start saying my friend should be able to control him because she is a great rider and she has tried everything. she is a better rider than most people i no and she has competed for states before. any ideas on what she could do?

Ok I know she probably has already had all this done but don’t forget to check tack/saddle/teeth/back/muscles – I knew a horse who behaved much like this, he would be fine some days and the on other days, it seemed out of the blue, but he would suddenly have a mad fit. Anyway he was all checked over and given the ok by the vet/saddle inspector & dentist. But then he was checked by a equine physiotherapist and found to have a really sore muscle in his back, and he only went mad when it hurt him. So she treated him, and the problem stopped!
Also I knew of another horse, and this will sound abit crazy, but its true. He was a top competition horse, an eventer, as a youngster, on track to compete at some CCI** events, like proper international competition. And then he started going abit crazy, getting really strong and bolting, rearing, bucking etc, mainly out at competitions. So a friend of mine picked this horse up real cheap because he was no longer good for competing, or even riding really. She tried everything, all the medical check-ups, replaced his saddle, sent him off for complete re-schooling and training, nothing doing. So she was about to give up. Then she read an article about a ’special magnetic man’ haha who could treat horses – I don’t know what the proper name for it is sorry. Anyway he came to have a look at her horse and told her it had been hit by lightning! And she was thinking he’s talking crap, but he said he only charged £20 so she thought she’d give him a go. And he fixed the problem 100%! She didn’t tell me exactly what he did, but something about magnets and magnetising or demagnetising the horse, she said all his hair stood on end! But whatever it was it worked, he’s now an absolute super star. So maybe try to find out about this?
Also I agree with the other person, it could be that your friend has a hot seat. I have a ‘hot seat’, I don’t really understand it, but basically it excites the horses for no apparent reason. I can get on a slow plod, not use very much leg or do very much, but he’ll be much more forward going with me. Also I once rode a friends horse who was a bit fizzy, and with me he went absolutely crazy, galloping round the field throwing massive bucks and jumping all the poo! So it could just be that her and the horse don’t gel that well. And I agree that it isn’t typical sports horse behaviour, they are specifically bred to be calm and obedient (but obv. forward going) in nature so that they can be trained to a high level and compete at a high level. Also I know she’s probably tried this but what about changing his feed? Because that can really hot a horse up, if he’s getting ‘hot’ feed, he can get a bad attitude out of nowhere!
Hope she can sort him out, maybe she should think about selling him and getting herself a new one if he keeps causing trouble, because he sounds like he could be a bit dangerous, and it could just be a problem of his attitude that she might not be able to change goodluck anyway!

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I’ve got a 6 year old Irish sports horse who was at peak fitness before getting a nasty gash to his leg which has since seen him confined to his stable for 4 weeks. He is now back out in the field full time and getting hacked out. Im looking for ideas for an intensive fitness programme which I could follow to get him back to peak fitness ASAP but without stressing him out.

Work from the ground first. Walk him and trot him on the lunge, for example but don’t push him too hard. Keep it steady and if you see any signs of pain, you must stop. Hills are good for gaining muscle as well as swimming. If you don’t have a swimming pool near you, try a lake or river. Always take a friend if you are going to go swimming, just in case you need some help. Start riding gently at first, walk and trot until you feel he is strong enough to canter. Consult your vet or contact a horse physiotherapist (yes they do exist) as they will be more experienced and will be able to see your horse to decide what it is best to do next. Even if you just make a phonecall to them, they can help. Also, ask around, there may be someone in a similar situation near you. Experience is always the answer. If not, try writing in to a reputable magazine such as Horse&Rider or Your Horse. Hope this helps.

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My new loan 6yr sports horse mare, is very unbalanced in the trot and canter on the lunge and riding (although I am not working her in the canter at the minute) With side reins on she is a lot better but I want to encourage her to find her own balance and not rely on the side reins.
Any ideas all suggestions welcome

Circles and transitions. Lots and lots of both of those. Also backing up hills will help build hind quarter muscles which will help her collect herself while moving forward. It will take several weeks to notice much of a difference in the way she moves as it will take a while to strenghten the muscles needed to collect and balance herself. So don’t give up too soon. Good luck!

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Newmarket

Newmarket is the home of the British Jockey Club, remains the headquarters of many national and international racing organisations. Newmarket thrived because of its marketplace and a profitable trade in accommodating travellers and so it continued for centuries, until King James I “discovered” its Heath in February 1604 as a fantastic leisure venue for his court and Newmarket’s sporting relations began.

Newmarket is well served for trouble-free transport links to the remainder of East Anglia: the A14 takes you in about 20 minutes to Cambridge in the west, where you can benefit from the delights of the ancient University Town. Newmarket racing is ingrained in Suffolk history and is alive and kicking turf today as one of the most exciting racecourses in the UK. Newmarket early in the morning is a strange place, busy with the activities of hundreds of centaur-like figures, nonchalant but serious, as though unaware of the danger and absurdity of answering rich men’s whims by teaching racehorses to run faster.

Charles II’s involvement from the mid 17th century secured Newmarket’s future at the heart of British racing. The local history of Newmarket is inextricably tied up with the history of horseracing. The historic centre of English racing is today home to the world renowned Newmarket racecourse, the National Stud and the National Horse Racing Museum.

Racing

Newmarket is on the up and up, boasting world class racing and facilities and the strikingly picturesque July Course offering its own exclusive brand of entertainment over the summer months.

Bronze Age barrows, showing proof of early activity, were dotted across Newmarket Heath until the 19th century when they were removed to make better conditions for horse racing. The Rowley Mile hosts racing of the highest calibre during the Spring and Autumn, including two of Britain’s five Classic races in early May: the 1000 and 2000 Guineas.

Racehorses

Of course, no visit to Newmarket is complete without visiting sites associated with its rich sporting heritage as the historic home of horse racing. You can visit the world prominent National Stud, take in a tour of the National Horse Racing Museum, and even arrange a tour of the town’s training facilities and gallops. The town has a exclusive environment consisting of the world’s most extensive training grounds (situated on the world’s largest expanse of tended grassland), over 2500 racehorses, some 70+ licensed trainers and more than 60 stud farms where the racehorses of the future are bred.

Course

The Rowley Mile racecourse sports a brand new grandstand which is a great feature of this lovely racetrack. The distinctive thing about teh Rowley mile course is that it is a straight track and has a large dip about two and a half furlongs out which can catch out three year olds, as you need to have a exceedingly well balanced horse to keep up an even tempo going into the dip and then have the endurance to come back up the dip to finish out the race. In the autumn the Rowley Course stages two further outstanding meetings in the Cambridgeshire and Champions’ Day race days.

Have a fantastic day out at Newmarket racing.

Keith Driscoll
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