Anyone have a grass arena or who schools in a field?

[Ranyhyn]

Yeah we only have the field at home and its a tiny portion thats flat but we make the most of it during dry weather periods. We then box out to an arena when needs be for some proper schooling.

 

[Beaulo]

Thanks so much for all your thoughts. It’s really helpful and yes being brutally honest the hacking here is amazing during the summer but slippery and hard going in the winter.

Our site is on protected parkland and so taking 800 square meters out of circulation by laying down a surface won’t be a popular idea.
Hence the idea to keep it grass.....

I need to think this through!

 

[Indy]

I only school in a field and I'd love a school. My horses is a bit of a beggar and I'd love somewhere enclosed. I have found though that when we end up in the long grass/rough area she does a really nice working trot.

I'm going to fence my area off next year with some electric fencing see if that helps.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

I am moving to a house with ten acres so will be able to have my horses at home for the first time ever. While this is very exciting, I'm wondering how I am going to cope without an arena. ( first world problem!) At my current livery yard, I am spoilt with two all weather arenas to ride in but I'll have plenty of space to set out a grass arena at my new house. I wondered how people manage, do you move the area you ride in around depending on the weather. I event and that's usually all on grass so I'm hoping to turn this to an advantage and there are arenas to hire nearby if need be. Just looking for any tips please?

Yes I have a 20x40 in the field and a grass round pen only for summer as we have and outdoor and indoor

 

[rowan666]

We have a fenced off area of grass in one field to ride in and tbh its rubbish because the ground is too hard to fall off on in summer ? and too sloppy in winter, we ended up putting some sand down in really slippy areas which has worked quite well for us. On the plus side though our lot are used to being worked on grass so none of them get exited and feel the urge to gallop when their feet hit the grass out hacking in open fields and outdoor shows

 

[Cob Life]

I've been schooling in thei field the last few weeks as they're not at home. It's make him so much stronger and more responsive to my leg to move sideways not just forwards, as he doesn't have the fence to rely on.

They've eaten the grass down and now there isn't enough grass covering to be able to ride on it so they've got to come home, but you shouldn't have this issue with 10 acres.having an arena makes it easier but I could manage without.