Light Work—Performance horses doing light work are ridden for 3 to 4 days per week for 3/4 to 2 hours a day—mainly light effort trotting, cantering and/or jumping for at least half the time they’re worked. They work moderately 2 to 3 times per week. They may be ridden on difficult trails, for show conditioning, harder ring riding, or hauled for competition 1 to 2 weekends a month. Performance horses doing light performance work will do well with feeds like Omolene^® #200 or Strategy^® which are nutritionally concentrated. These feeds also contain added fat to increase stamina.

Light Work Disciplines may include: Dressage, gaited competition, reining, horse show. However, it is not so much the particular discipline in which they are engaged, but the duration of the performance and the intensity that determines light, moderate or heavy work.

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