At home I have a wee little ring to ride in. It doubles as the sacrifice paddock. It isn’t really a ring but I pretend it is to feel better about myself.
It’s nicely fenced, probably the size of a small court dressage ring (without the outside track). But it’s just overgrazed grass an dirt. Wavy. A small hill at one end. Too deep from an old manure pile at the other end (now compost).
It’s frustrating but it is all I have so it is what it is (I can ride in the bigger pasture but I am loathe to chew up the grass at all, and honestly it’s wavier and bumpier anyway.)
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I don’t have the funds to do the work to actually put in footing and turn it in to a real ring, though that will happen someday.
So my question is this: Do you adjust your riding? Do you just continue to ask for balance and straightness and bend despite the footing?
It isn’t dangerous in anyway. No gopher holes or slippery spots or big rocks. Just your typical hard baked, over grazed pasture that is great footing the day after a rain, but goes back to bad two days later.
For equipment (if anyone has any suggestions) I have a small tractor, back hoe, loader bucket and harrows. Driveway grader too, but not sure if that would be too aggressive.
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