Home crops — limited space for horses (8)

'horses' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'home crops limited space' is the wordplay.
'home' becomes 'pad' (pad can mean someone's home).
'crops' becomes 'docks' (both can mean to cut or trim).
'limited' means to remove the last letter (a limited or incomplete form of the word).
'space' becomes 's' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'docks' with its last letter taken off is 'dock'.
'pad'+'dock'+'s'='PADDOCKS'

'for' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?