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The Equine Arena Handbook: Developing a User-Friendly Facility |  | Author: Robert Malmgren
Creator: Deborah Helmers
Publisher: Alpine Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 329511
Media: Paperback
Pages: 126
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 1577790162
Dewey Decimal Number: 725.82
EAN: 9781577790167
ASIN: 1577790162
Publication Date: June 1999
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Product Description
If you are planning to build or improve an arena, you must have this book. Think of the arena footing as more than a smooth surface--it's use and management must be compatible. The three most important concerns are dust, hardness, and drainage. You'll learn to control all three. Additional chapters cover purchasing land for horse facilities, arena maintenance, footing amendments, and more.
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 Equine Arena Handbook April 9, 2009
D. Smith (Western Tennesse)
Interesting facts on soil chemistry, If you are looking for parctical guidelines to designing and building an arena this book is not it.
 EQUINE HANDBOOK March 30, 2009
BINGO FAN (CANASTOTA NY)
THIS WAS A GIFT FOR A FRIEND THEY SAID THIS BOOK WAS VERY HELPFUL
 Lacking practical information October 17, 2007
EAC (Texas, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In common with some other reviewers, I was disappointed by the lack of specific practical information in this book - drainage designs, depths of base & footing for specific disciplines, fencing, arena size by discpline, crowning & slope - to mention but a few. The focus of this book is soils and it useful as far as it goes. By the time you buy and read this book, however, you have probably moved byond it just by having researched on the internet. For the more practical information, I recommend "Under Foot", an inexpensive small volume published by the USDF, which I found very useful, together with advice on arenas provided by Cherry Hill on the internet.
Extremely technical May 20, 2007
H. Destree (Wisconsin)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this book because it had rave reviews. I immediately read the book when it arrived and was a bit disappointed because it has so much scientific jargon it was hard to follow at times. I couldn't help but notice that the author has patents on rubber footing products which he advertises throughout his book.
How to build and maintain a cost-effective equine arena March 18, 2006
D. Donovan, Editor/Sr. Reviewer (California, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Deserving of ongoing mention is a guide horse owners will relish: a slim but detailed account of how to build and maintain an equine arena. You can save thousands of dollars and horse injury by learning what makes for a good arena, how to clean and manage it properly, considering drainable spots, and more. EQUINE ARENA HANDBOOK: DEVELOPING A USER-FRIENDLY FACILITY appeared in 1999 but remains virtually the only in-depth book on the topic today.
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