Pixie -where did you work? Flat horses are absolutely NOT turned out. I'm beginning to think you are winging it a bit here.....
Typical daily routine
5.00am – First feeds given by a key member of staff
6am to 12noon – Mucking out, and riding horses. Each horse will generally be exercised for 1 to 1½ hours. The trainer will oversee three or four ‘lots’ (strings of horses) a day, sometimes more.
12.30pm – Second feed
1.00pm to 3.30pm – Quiet time when the yard will ‘shut down’ so the horses can rest, and the lads have lunch and may also have a sleep; hard work and a good social life being integral to a life in a racing yard.
3.30pm to 5.30pm – Evening stables when the horses are skipped out, groomed and re-checked for injuries, inflammation etc. Some horses may go out for a pick of grass or go on the horse walker. In the summer those horses who have been turned out in small paddocks will come back in for the night.
8.30pm – Late night check and some horses may have another feed.