{"id":6675,"date":"2015-05-21T08:38:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T01:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6675"},"modified":"2019-03-20T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:57:15","slug":"improving-arena-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/improving-arena-surfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving Arena Surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s far more to building a good riding arena than meets the eye. It\u2019s not just a matter of erecting fences to create a perimeter and filling the interior with dirt or sand; a complicated science goes into making a safe, durable, and consistent surface. But why go to all that trouble, which can amount to many hours of labor and thousands of dollars? Because this training and competition environment can greatly influence a sport horse\u2019s soundness and resultant career longevity.<\/p>\n<p>To read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/35805\/improving-arena-surfaces?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=lameness&amp;utm_campaign=05-20-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arena surfaces are subject to compaction, drainage issues, surface irregularities, and influences of climate and temperature. A surface that is too hard can lead to bone, joint, and hoof injuries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,14,40],"tags":[299,199],"class_list":["post-6675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equinews","category-industry","category-thehorse","tag-arena","tag-injury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8275,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions\/8275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}