eggs for racehorses

Question
hello ma'am, can i feed raw eggs to thoroughbred racehorses? is it good for their diet?
an experienced groom at our racetrack told me that horses which are always dull in the stall and perform averagely in the race would get a boost up and drastically improve in their next run upon eating 4 raw eggs per day till 40 days. is he right? i don't believe that horses in the wild ate eggs.

Answer
Hi Rohit,

There are soooo many feeding 'tricks' that people use to try to improve their horse's performance.  My rule of thumb is feed them what they would eat in the wild...and I doubt wild horses pillage birds nests for food even on the hungriest of days.  A lot of people try to emulate people diets to horse diets but quite frankly we're very different athletes with very different digestive systems and nutritional requirements.  Stick to the basics.  A horse needs to be fed a well formulated and balanced ration, no tricks.  And horse's aren't efficient at digesting animal fats, so less efficient at using the energy from eggs.  There are no magic feeding tricks...winning horses are made of genetics, conditioning (this is where rations come in) and heart.

Thanks, Corlena