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Heated Indoor Arenas – Environments to Train Horses

Indoor arenas allow for prepared environments to train horses. Trainers will have complete control over the arena environment and inside weather. Make them heated indoor arenas to lengthen the days of training and improve horse fitness.

Discipline Possible in Indoor Arenas

Walled arenas also help eliminate distractions, establish routines, and train horses more scientifically. Most every equestrian discipline will benefit from the protected indoor environment. By preparing an indoor riding arena, you will be able to bring out the best in your equine fellows.

Custom Designed Arenas

The equipment and storage areas used in individual disciplines can be designed into the arena from the beginning. Every equestrian discipline—racing, mounted games, Western riding, polo, dressage to horse fitness uses different props. You’ll be able to position and store props used to train for schooling, jumping, and natural horsemanship.

Heated Indoor Arenas

Not only does an indoor arena allow you to prepare an environment for training a horse, but you can improve the horse’s health. Add heat and you have got yourself a wonderful indoor arena to help extend the year-round training calendar.

A 14-day period of heat acclimation using heated indoor arenas helps optimize performance during equestrian competitions, especially those held in hotter climates, according to mattbarn.com.

Training in a heated arena, Olympic horses, eventers, and a para-besides horse showed improved physical indicators. Using standardized exercise tests on Day 1 and Day 14, they measured the heart rate, plasma lactate concentration, the rectal temperature, sweat loss, and sweat composition. All the horses took longer to reach their peak T and heat storage increased. The 14 days reduced cardiovascular and thermal strain.

Racehorse Training

You can use your arena to open your own equestrian riding clinics or join like-minded equestrians in the Denver area. If you want to race, you will start training your racehorses in the arena from an early age. They will start racing at about 2.5 years.

And, if you want your horses ready for Bally’s Arapahoe Park Horse Track, get them jumping in your indoor arena. Arapahoe Park features Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse, Paint Horse, and Arabian horse racing. Check out the racetrack at 26,000 E. Quincy Avenue in Aurora, CO.

Building Contractors – Equestrian Arenas

For information about pole barns and metal buildings for Equestrian Activities, contact Sapphire Construction, Inc. at (303) 619-7213. Our team custom designs each building using high-quality, engineer-tested materials from Lester Buildings.