Pure Performance – 15kg Horse Feed

Pure Performance – 15kg

Pure Performance is the highest-energy feed Pure make and the only one in the range built on cereal grain. Bruised oats supply fast-release energy while rapeseed oil and linseed supply slow-release energy, giving 12 MJ/kg — enough for racing, eventing and upper-level competition work, where a fibre-and-oil feed cannot keep both weight and power on a horse.

That performance comes from starch. At 23%, Pure Performance carries roughly ten times the starch of Pure Condition Mix, and it is the one feed in this range that is emphatically not for a metabolic horse. It is BETA NOPS and UFAS certified, so it is safe under competition prohibited-substance rules, but it is a feed for horses in genuinely hard work and nothing else.

Performance & Benefits

• 12 MJ/kg digestible energy, the highest in the Pure range.
• Bruised oats for fast-release energy alongside 8% oil for slow-release stamina.
• 21% fibre, so the cereal load sits on a fibre base rather than on its own.
• Built-in balancer supplying vitamins, minerals and trace elements.
• BETA NOPS and UFAS certified for competition use.
• Free from molasses, alfalfa, soya and nutritionally improved straw.

Suitable For

• Racehorses in training and horses eventing or competing at a high level.
• Horses in hard, fast work that cannot hold condition on fibre and oil alone.
• Horses needing both immediate power and stamina from the same ration.
• Competition yards needing a feed certified under BETA NOPS and UFAS.
• Not suitable for laminitic, EMS, PPID or ulcer-prone horses, or for good doers — Pure Easy, Pure Fibre Balance and Pure Working cover those, and Pure Condition Mix at 2% starch is the low-starch way to add weight.

Feeding

• Feed 400–600g per 100kg bodyweight per day — 2–3kg for a 500kg horse.
• Split the daily ration across at least two and preferably three feeds; large cereal meals are the principal risk at this starch level.
• Match the amount to the work actually being done, and cut it back on rest days.
• Introduce gradually over 10–14 days.
• Feed with generous forage and fresh water available at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: bruised oats, grass chaff, oatfeed pellets, wheatfeed, vitamins and minerals, sunflower extract, dark distiller grains, rapeseed oil, linseed lozenges, full fat linseed meal, salt, unmolassed sugarbeet, di-calcium phosphate, fructo-oligosaccharides and limestone flour.
• Digestible energy 12 MJ/kg. Protein 13%. Oil 8%. Fibre 21%. Starch 23%. Naturally occurring sugar 4%.
• Calcium 0.9%. Phosphorus 0.4%. Magnesium 2.1 g/kg. Salt 0.7%.
• Certified under the BETA NOPS scheme and UFAS.

Care & Caution

• Starch is 23%. At the top of the feeding range a 500kg horse receives close to 700g of starch a day, so this feed is not suitable for horses with laminitis, EMS, PPID, insulin resistance or a history of gastric ulcers.
• Keep individual meals small. Starch that outruns small-intestine digestion passes into the hindgut, where it can cause acidosis and colic.
• Pure note it may not suit excitable horses; the fast-release element is real and will show in some.
• Cut the ration back on days off while keeping forage the same.