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Class Act Horse Arenas Colorado Style

Want to train your own dancing horses?  Custom designing horse arenas Colorado style for those classy Lipizzaner horses give you private space on your own terms. The graceful equine ballet dancers thrive in settings that accommodate all four seasons for training.  And Indoor arenas for sure protection from the cold, sleet, rain, and wind.

Build Indoor Arenas Colorado

We are talking about Colorado style to blend in with surrounding landscapes or buildings – Wonderful facilities with stunning views of the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountain’s. The flexible design of horse arenas in Colorado may include additional spaces for boarding horses, regulation dimensions, beautiful interior and exterior finishes, and extra amenities for performances. You decide how elaborate or how simple and, of course, the budget.

The Dancing White Horses

The noble Lipizzaner breed comes from Austrian historical and cultural heritage.  For over 400 years, the Spanish Riding School in Vienna has produced the most graceful horses found anywhere.  The school originally cultivated superior grace for the Austrian royalty.  Horsemen of the Renaissance period were also taken by the finesse of these fine horses.

Now we see a number of young Coloradoans enthralled by the lovely Lipizzaner.  These elegant creatures work in total attunement with their riders.  Irresistibly beautiful, the dancing white horses seen in parades and at astonishing equestrian theaters receive classical training called dressage.

Horse Arenas for Dressage

Dressage is training for this performance art form.  It includes a series of skills which are acquired one by one, much like classical ballet.  Dressage competitions include a series of tests with increasing levels of difficulty.  The United States Dressage Federation sanctions competitions within the United States.  Nationally defined levels and gradated steps to reach them are part of the goal sets.

Dressage tests the abilities of each rider and horse through a series of movements.  When well trained, the performance of the horse and rider is so smooth that the horse appears to be leading the “dance.”  It is a class act.

Unfortunately, many horse properties in Central Colorado do not have the best facilities for dressage, “the highest expression of horse training.”  Regulation arenas measure 66 feet by 197 feet.  A smaller version is 66 feet by 131 feet. Very specific markers are scientifically placed throughout the arena.  These define the movements and assist with training.

Horse Arena Builders Denver – Colorado Springs

Please contact Sapphire Construction, Inc. at (303) 619-7213 for more information about horse arenas in Central Colorado.  Our full-service design, engineering, architectural and construction resources will take your project from beginning to end.  Ask about residential and commercial outbuildings in Douglas County, Jefferson County, Ebert County, and El Paso County.