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08/26/2026

Letter to a racehorse owner client morphed into a blog

Building a Racehorse From the Inside OutYour experience with Thrive Feed in your retired Thoroughbred is particularly relevant to what you are now facing with your three-year-old.A greenstick fracture in a young horse naturally makes us think about bone strength. However, when people talk about bone...

07/02/2026

https://www.thrivefeed.com/post/is-your-horse-bad-or-is-their-gut-burning

The Hidden Link Between Behaviour and the HindgutWe’ve all seen it, and many of us have lived it.A horse that pins its ears when the saddle appears. A horse that snaps when the girth is tightened. A horse that suddenly becomes resistant, tense, unwilling, or explosive under saddle despite having p...

07/02/2026

https://www.thrivefeed.com/post/the-first-30-minutes-after-feeding

What Happens Between the Feed Tub and the Stomach?Most horse owners spend considerable time choosing feeds, supplements, and forage, yet very few understand what actually happens during the first thirty minutes after a horse begins eating.Those first thirty minutes are among the most important stage...

06/29/2026

One of the most important blogs I've written.

In my previous article, I explained that digestion begins in the horse’s mouth. Efficient chewing, thorough salivary saturation, and the formation of well-lubricated food boluses are the essential first steps in extracting nutrients from forage.The other end of the digestive tract provides an equa...

06/29/2026

https://www.thrivefeed.com/post/the-first-step-of-digestion-begins-in-the-mouth

Most horse owners understand that digestion involves the stomach, small intestine, and hindgut. What is often overlooked is that digestion actually begins the moment a horse starts chewing.The horse’s mouth is not simply a mechanism for reducing feed particle size. It is the first and one of the m...

06/18/2026

My latest BLOG

For years, horse owners have been faced with a common frustration. When a horse becomes explosive, spooky, or difficult to train, it is often treated strictly as a "behavioural issue." When a horse struggles with maintaining a healthy weight or experiences sudden physical sensitivity, we are told it...

05/12/2026

https://www.thrivefeed.com/post/the-absolute-foundation-of-equine-health-and-performance

The Power of Cellulolytic Bacteria That Power Your Horse.The horse was designed by nature to live on forage, not on grain, oil, or highly processed feeds that bypass the normal digestive sequence. At the core of equine health lies one of the most remarkable biological partnerships in nature: the rel...

05/08/2026

https://www.thrivefeed.com/post/fat-oils-in-a-mares-diet

How does a high fat diet affect the hormonal balance of a mare? Horses evolved to eat a low fat, high fibre diet based on continuous grazing of grasses and forage. In that natural setting, dietary fat intake is very low, and the mare’s hormonal system developed to function optimally under those co...

04/30/2026

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04/27/2026

A very important blog

One of the greatest things I have witnessed in a lifetime around horses is their ability to recover when the right conditions are finally provided. Not just survive, not just improve a little, but transform in ways that many people would think impossible.I have seen horses arrive in a body condition...