We strive to take excellent care of our indoor arena footing.   Manure removal from the arena is a requirement at Gale's.  This keeps the sand footing pure and dust free.  Even so, we regularly water the arena and groom the sand footing with the TR3.

John and our new arena groomer - the TR3.  We call this the "SANDBONI"!

GREAT NEWS! 

WE NOW HAVE RUBBER CRUMB FOOTING IN OUR INDOOR ARENA

AND WE ARE LOVING IT!!!!!!

We are lucky to have a supplier of rubber crumb move right into the Elmira area.

Fennell Recycling in Elmira Heights is recycling old automobile tires into rubber mulch.

We put 21 tons of the rubber, mixing it in with our old sand (that turned to concrete after just one lesson), and    GUESS WHAT!! - no more compaction problems!!  PLUS, the footing just keeps getting better and better  as more of the old sand mixes up with the rubber.  Contact us for more information.

We also now have a 60' round pen in place for training.  Can't say enough about the benefits of a round pen.  As Monty Roberts says, "Get one."

The outdoor ring is also one of the largest in the area with good sand footing. Usually, in the summer months, we set up the jump course out there, and there is still plenty of room for casual riding around the jumps. We painted all of our outdoor jumps so that there are bright colored obstacles to challenge horse and rider.

In 2006, we purchased a full size, 20 x 60 meter BLOK dressage arena and set this up in the middle of the outdoor arena, placing the jumps around the outside....still leaving room for hackers to ride around the outside of the jumps (it's a big ring).

In our 20 acre pasture, we put up six jumps as a beginning to a cross country course. We have logs placed around the property for your jumping pleasure.