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Feeding the Ex-Racehorse: Improving Hoof Quality
Feeding the Ex-Racehorse

Feeding the Ex-Racehorse: Improving Hoof Quality

Providing a balanced diet or feeding a balancer that contains a healthy hoof package will ensure that the hooves are provided with all the essential nutrients that they require to grow.

Feeding the Ex-Racehorse: Improving Hoof Quality
Feeding Horses for Energy
Energy

Feeding Horses for Energy: Instant Energy vs. Stamina Explained

Learn how to feed your horse for more energy. Discover the best feeds for instant energy, stamina, and endurance, plus tips for good-doers and performance horses.

Feeding Horses for Energy: Instant Energy vs. Stamina Explained
Why Horses Could Hold the Key to the Future of Land
News

Why Horses Could Hold the Key to the Future of Land

At Saracen we believe that horses are part of the environmental solution. Grasslands – when properly managed – are powerful carbon sinks.

Why Horses Could Hold the Key to the Future of Land
Celebrating 20 Years of World-Class Nutritional Science
Nutrition Advice

Celebrating 20 Years of World-Class Nutritional Science

Saracen Horse Feeds are proudly celebrating an exclusive 20-year partnership with Kentucky Equine Research, World Leaders in Equine Research and Nutrition.

Celebrating 20 Years of World-Class Nutritional Science
Feeding the Ex-Racehorse: Feeding for Weight Maintenance
Feeding the Ex-Racehorse

Feeding the Ex-Racehorse: Feeding for Weight Maintenance

The main error that many owners make when feeding a horse fresh out of training is to place them on a horse and pony mix or cube simply because it is low in energy.

Feeding the Ex-Racehorse: Feeding for Weight Maintenance
MicroSteed™
MicroSteed™

MicroSteed™ Equine Nutrition Calculator

MicroSteed is the equine nutrition calculator and ration evaluator developed by Kentucky Equine Research to assess total dietary intake of nutrients from feed, forages and supplements.

MicroSteed™ Equine Nutrition Calculator
Feed Ingredients for Horses
Feed Ingredients

Feed Ingredients for Horses

Discover the key horse feed ingredients used in Saracen Horse Feeds and why they matter. Learn how fibre, cereals, protein, oils, vitamins, and minerals support equine health, condition, and performance.

Feed Ingredients for Horses
Clinical Sign of Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome
Gastric Ulcers - EGUS

Clinical Sign of Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome

The clinical signs of EGUS can vary from horse to horse and can also be a reflection of that individual horse’s temperament.

Clinical Sign of Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome
Weight Management: Maintaining Fibre Intake
Weight Management

Weight Management: Maintaining Fibre Intake

Forage is essential to satisfy both the horse’s physical and psychological needs. The physical need for forage is to provide bulk and help to maintain a healthy digestive system, whilst the psychological need is that horses have a natural “drive” and need to chew as they are “trickle feeders”.

Weight Management: Maintaining Fibre Intake