Heavy Work—Performance horses doing heavy work are ridden 6 to 7 days per week for 1 to 2 hours a day at a minimum. They are doing medium to hard cantering, galloping and/or jumping for over half of the time worked. They work hard at least 4 to 5 times per week. Horses that fall into this category are endurance, 3-day event, race or polo horses that train hard nearly every day and are hauled long distances, or horses on the road for competition circuit for the majority of the month, several months at a time. They do best by eating the most highly concentrated high fat performance feeds like Ultium^®, Race Ready^®, Strategy^® or Omolene^® #200.

Heavy Work Disciplines may include: Racing, endurance racing, draft/pulling, eventing, polo. However, it is not so much the particular discipline in which they are engaged, but the intensity with which they attack it that determines light, moderate or heavy work.

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