The first big consideration is the shape of the dressage arena, and it’s drainage. These go hand in hand. The natural fall of the surrounding land has to guide your decision-ma… See more

Excavator/Digger – To pull out the bulk of the top soil and clay until getting to the level height that we wanted our dressage arena to be, a digger was definitely the best option. Usin… See more

Once the clay base was prepared, it was time for us to consider the edging and what we were going to do with the sides of the arena. I wanted my dressage arena to have a nice timbe… See more

The job of the base fill is to make a hard level surface to support the fill above that the dressage horse will schooling on (what I’ll call the footing layer). It was this base layer that ca… See more