As horse owners, safety is always at the forefront of our minds. We carefully choose feed, equipment, trailers, exercise regimens, and every small detail to keep our horses safe, healthy, and performing their best. Designing an arena should be no different. Though a controlled environment like an indoor or covered arena is often thought [...]
This photo shows a very even and level horse arena footing. Recognizing and Impact of hard, deep and loose Horse Arena Footings on the Soundness of the horse. How to determine which Horse Arena Footing is good and safe for your horse to ride on. This horse is traveling straight and landing safe [...]
THIS MONTH’S QUESTION: What constitutes ideal arena footing? What considerations do you take when crafting a training surface at home or at a competition arena? At Footing Solutions USA, we believe the ideal arena footing is the footing that has been specifically constructed with the horse in mind.We want to make sure the [...]
Equine Journal January 2019 Learn about how to choose the right Arena Footing for your Riding Arena.
P R O pop quiz THIS MONTH’S QUESTION: What constitutes ideal arena footing? What considerations do you take when crafting a training surface at home or at a competition arena? At Footing Solutions USA, we believe the ideal arena footing is the footing that has been specifically constructed with the horse [...]
Daily Arena Dragging and leveling: During the first week of installation of geotextile horse footings we recommend watering and rolling the arena surface daily. Afterwards, for daily maintenance, just watering and harrowing of the horse footing with an appropriate arena drag with coil tines, tines set not deeper than 1 inch into the surface is needed. [...]
The Arena Footing at the Thomas & Mack Center's competition arena and Warm Up rings were prepared with the Platz-Max Arena Drags. If you had been fortunate enough to make it to this event, you were able to watch our arena drags zooming around the arena taking sharp turns around the jumps. The Platz-Max NL-GW Plus [...]
New arena base construction method saves water and provides a perfect horse riding surface even in the most severe weather As featured in the California Riding Magazine, June 2009 Water conversation has been a top-of-mind subject for many years now, but it’s always been tough to tackle in the world of arena maintenance. A subterranean irrigation [...]
Representing Underground Watering Systems in America Ebb- and Flow arena system as featured on dressagedaily.com ‘Footing Solutions USA, brings the best German arena footing technologies to the United States at a competitive price, offering the most innovative sand arena solutions available. Representing the ‘High- and Low Tide’ - also known as ‘Ebb- and Flow’ arena system [...]
