By Classic Equine Equipment
Hosting a show or event introduces a vibrance that can energize even the calmest equine. Visitors of all ages crowd your walkways. Horses are being led in all directions. Arenas surge with excitement. While your boarders and horses are familiar with the daily rhythms of your barn, come show day your grounds shift from relative calm to high activity in a heartbeat. With all that hustle and bustle, safety needs to be your top priority. Careful pre-show preparation is essential for ensuring a safe and memorable experience for all, from the horses and riders in the arenas and barns to the spectators in the stands. Classic Equine Equipment can give you peace of mind.
Prepare Your Facility Grounds for a Safe Event
The safety of your boarders and visitors depends on how well your facility functions. Haul-ins arrive early to get ready for the show. Spectators begin streaming in soon after. Manage traffic flow with entrance gates. Optional automatic openers can facilitate effective traffic control ensuring smooth transitions of vehicles and trailers.
Excited and curious guests will want to see the arena, the vendors, the facilities and the horses. Certainly, you don’t want spectators to wander into areas that need to remain private. Barn end doors help manage foot traffic and add privacy to the barn. Dutch doors can also keep spectators out of the barn and offer you flexible control over light, ventilation, and access with independently opening top and bottom halves. Visiting horses may need pastures for turnout in between events or classes. Safe latches on pasture gates prevent injury to horses and people. Stable-ity Grids can provide sure footing around high traffic areas and help minimize the hassles of mud.
Dutch doors and barn end doors from Classic Equine Equipment are fully welded for strength and custom designed to specifically fit the openings of your barn. Classic entrance and pasture gates are engineered and manufactured for safety, ease of use and consistent performance.
Prepare Your Horse Barn for Safety
During your event, the inside of your barn will be busy with boarders checking on horses, haul-ins seeking temporary stalls and guests walking the aisles. To keep the day running smoothly, you need equipment that’s safe and reliable. Consider stall fronts that are designed and engineered to offer privacy and flexibility, depending on the needs of your horses. Some horses may be food aggressive and nip at people outside their stall; other horses might be curious and friendly and will want to have a look around. Adding yokes to sliding or hinged stall fronts or hinged Dutch doors allows you to decide what’s best for your horses and your guests.
During a normal day at your facility, your barn needs to be well-organized and well-lit to provide a safe environment. But on show day, those safeguards are even more important. Families will be wrangling excited children. Riders and horses will be coming and going from stalls and wash bays to the arenas. While adequate lighting allows you to inspect your horses in the aisles and stalls, an organized tack room can help keep gear off the floor to prevent trips and falls.
Your Arena is the Center of the Action
Spectators will gather as energized horses and riders continually enter and exit the arena. To handle the activity and the excitement, well-structured arenas with smooth functioning gates allow spectators to watch safely.
Before, during and after the event, horses will need to be groomed, washed and cooled down. Well-appointed wash bays and grooming stalls, inside and outside your barn, give riders and grooms the space they need. Over-the-head washers with stainless-steel rotating wash wands prevent horses from getting tangled up in the hose and spooked. Button mat flooring provides superior traction for wet floors. Conveniently placed hitching posts outside of wash bays or in low-traffic areas can provide temporary tie-off points.
Classic Equine Equipment provides custom-designed stalls and accessories exceptionally built for safety and enduring quality.
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- European Series hinged-door stall fronts from Classic use plunger latches that can only be operated by hand.
- Legend Series sliding-door stall fronts from Classic feature maintenance-free door-glides and will help keep aisles clear as horses come and go.
- Tack room and barn accessories range from rotating tack walls to wall-mounted gooseneck light fixtures, making sure everything in your barn is well organized, well lit, and safe.
To ensure your facility is awarded the recognition it deserves this show season, contact a Design Consultant at Classic Equine Equipment. With Classic, attention to aesthetics and careful fabrication of your custom stalls and stabling equipment means you’re protecting what matters most—horses, people and your business.
