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al hoof-impact-to-limb-loading sequence, resulting in a less abrupt deceleration and lower
risk of injury to the horse's legs.
The deceleration number will be greater on a harder surface than a softer surface. Values
of more than 125 are associated with athletic injuries. Hard-packed or frozen normal soils
have values of 175 and higher. A good turf surface has values of approximately 75 to 100.
Soil-testing labs can perform the Clegg test on your present arena and then again after
renovation.
Too dusty.
For both horse and rider, dust is irritating to the eyes, nose, and respiratory
tract; it covers buildings, vehicles, and equipment downwind from the arena. Dust can be
caused by many factors, including the particle size distribution (PSD), dirty sand, wood
dust from decomposed wood footings, percent of organic matter in the footing, type of
minerals making up the sand fraction of the soil, watering practices, arena grooming tech-
niques, and overall climate, as well as temporary effects from wind, humidity, precipita-
tion, and temperature.
Clean,premiumdecomposedgranitemakesanidealfootingforroundpensandaren-
as. Depending on its place of origin, it will vary in color from honey gold to reddish
brown.
