Please comment on the commercial feed you feel is the best for high performance horses and why. TIA!
key flow is fantastic
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A first time poster responded to by a first time poster with a brand trying to gain traction with the US market. Interesting coincidence.
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I like triple crown, neutrena, and purina. We feed these to 4* level eventers. They keep their weight on under a heavy work and travel load.
And some of these horses do high level jumpers too to prep for big horse trials. So I think this answer qualifies.
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And the poster didn’t say WHY key flow is fantastic! Oops.
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I have used and loved Hygain since I was a junior rider in Australia. Horses look fantastic, great muscle and top line, great energy, they love the feed taste, the range has options for every need and most of all, the ingredients are top notch. I appreciate the chemical restrictions on crop/grain growers in Australia are generally far more stringent.
As-asked, it’s not possible to answer.
What’s the horse eating now (all the things)? Is his weight good? Is he able to do his job as required and without issues? What brands can you get?
“Best” is entirely relative. Is he overweight on just hay/grass?
Keyflow is a brand, not “a feed”, so how can someone recommend a brand that has a wide variety of feeds, from a ration balancer, to low NSC feeds to higher NSC feeds?
No brand has a feed that’s suitable for all horses, for one reason or another
Nobody can answer your question as-asked.
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Which Keyflow? And why is it fantastic? What does it do for “high level jumpers” in particular?
I like to feed high level jumpers a mixture of super bouncy balls and helium. Helps them get way up over those jumps!
Silly question, with an infinite number of answers depending on the individual horse. The “best” thing to feed a horse is whatever that horse does well on.
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There are a number of factors here. First of all, it really depends on the horse (age, breed, hard keeper vs. easier keeper) as well as the forage aspect of the horse’s diet. Remember, a larger sized horse might eat 30+ lbs of forage per day, but a much smaller amount of concentrate. So evaluating your forage is a really big part of an equine nutritional plan.
Overall, it’s best to go with a commercial brand that is easy to procure in various locations as show horses travel quite a bit and if you are feeding an unusual or local brand that can create difficulty in keeping the horse on the same diet when it travels.
In this day and age, it’s very easy to get a knowledgeable equine nutritionist on the phone for advice. That might be a good place to start as you can give them all of the horse’s specifics and the details about what the horse is already eating. This would be a better plan rather than taking advice from anonymous strangers on the internet.
I also advise against cobbling together some weird science experiment of a diet based on glossy advertising and packaging and pressure from supplement companies.
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I feel like this was a thinly veiled attempt to get people talking about the first brand referenced above, not an actual, real-person question.
Obviously, helium and super bouncy balls is the best diet, as Rhythm notes, above. Both of mine (mid-level jumpers, TBH), live on air, as a matter of fact! 
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