Arena Surfaces

[Henry.Col]

I am currently putting together a plan for a research project into arena surfaces and gait analysis.

I was just wondering what surfaces you use and how deep you have your surfaces ?

Possibly more enquiries to follow.

Alice

 

[cptrayes]

Alice do you mean how deep was it laid, or how deep does it ride?

 

[Henry.Col]

How deep it was when it was layed

Thankyou xx

 

[cptrayes]

OK I have a surface made up as follows (from the quote):

membrane
125 mm clean stone
membrane
125mm silica sand
75mm combi-ride (fibre/rubber particle mix)
25mm chopped rubber tyre

If you want to gait analyse my horses, I'd be delighted

 

[Henry.Col]

Great

Well it is all still in planning stage, unfortunately will be a rather expensive undertaking! But watch this space !

 

[YasandCrystal]

Mine is as follows:


Diagonal drains (x 5) accross manege filled with blue holey drainage pipe and pea shingle
membrane
6" of crushed concrete
membrane
4.5" of crag sand

 

[cptrayes]

What's crag sand Y&C?

 

[YasandCrystal]

What's crag sand Y&C?

It is sand and fossils (we find quite a few) which is a very deep down layer from the pyloceen(sp?) period. It is an ab fab surface as it retains moisture and always rides like the beach - offering support, but with perfect give for jumping etc.
The ONLY drawback is if you have a pale horse - it does tend to stain their legs orange for quite a few years!!!! This effect slowly fades. Here is Crystal sporting the crag orange! You can see the colour in my siggy picture.

we seem to be thread following each other today

 

[flying solo]

Hehe love that pic y&c!