A covered arena is a lot different than an indoor, an indoor is like riding in a tin can left out in the sun even with the doors open. I was at a barn with an insulated indoor with no heat and it was great to ride in even when the temperatures dipped close to minus 40. In the summer it was great until it wasn’t anymore. There were only two doors to the outside on it, so if the wind wasn’t blowing from the right direction or even if it was when it was stinking hot out, either the air didn’t move or it just blew in more hot air. At least with a covered arena, it catches all breezes and blocks the sun. There were days I would have killed for one of those!
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That’s what I meant by hang meat. Would that I could afford one and afford to have it air conditioned. These days when I’m out cleaning stalls one of the hose ice bucket challenges sounds like heaven.
I’ve lost track of the number of days I’ve hosed my hair off and the back of my neck in the wash rack with straight cold water even after cleaning stalls. After riding is slightly less, though haying season might equal that.
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Yup. I’ve dunked my head in the water trough and jumped in my pool with all
My clothes on too
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Victor Avila, a 66-year-old long-term U.S. green card holder who legally immigrated in 1967 and has held a green card since, was detained by ICE. Avila was returning home visiting his son who is a member of the U.S. Airforce and was stationed in Japan. He was detained because in 2009 he had two misdemeanors from a DUI and possession. He served time in jail, has been clean since, and has been a legal assistant for the same law firm for over 10 years. He is currently being held in custody and is waiting a court date of July 15.
This is why people are not travelling. He was apparently a good enough citizen to remain in the US after his misdemeanor, and was working for a law firm, but he is sitting in a detention center for a month due to an issue he thought he had moved past. He is at risk of being deported to a country he hasn’t been to since 1967.
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Sunnyfield Farm in Westchester County? The barns are yellow.
Ha ha great guess but no. However this farm gives you the exact same feeling of Ohmigod this is perfect when you drive in. It is not a public barn.
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I believe Sunnyfield got sold a couple of years ago, so I don’t know if it is still using the same name. I think I remember hearing that it was going to remain a horse farm, though. Fingers crossed.
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It is still called Sunnyfield.
A friend is having a couple of horses imported from Ireland next month - I asked her about tariffs and apparently it’s the same as the last couple of horses she brought over last year about this time.
The indoor where I work has 2 huge end doors, it has a bunch of side windows. In my area, SE PA, covered arena aren’t a thing. Indoors are a yes. There is a huge variation on if they have windows, end/side doors, insulation. In my area I can think of 2 covered arenas versus maybe 100 indoors, Boyd Martin isn’t too far from me. He has an indoor with side garage doors. Insulation and ventilation makes a huge difference.
In my area the goal on an indoor is to keep warm and be protected from rain and snow. Most farms also has an outdoor for summer. We do use our indoor during the summer but it is the 2nd choice,
The farm has a smaller "pony/beginner’ outdoor, a medium sized indoor, and a huge outdoor ring.
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That cannot be correct as there is now a 10% tariff that did not exist last year. Unless of course it’s been suspended, paused, declared illegal by a judge somewhere or someone has carved out a specific exemption for horses that I haven’t heard about yet. Which is entirely possible. No-one can keep up.
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The whole tariff thing is ridiculous as you never know from day to day what is actually going on. As far as I know she’s importing 2-3 horses from Ireland so we’ll see what happens when they arrive.
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Sadly this arena didn’t have great ventilation. Just the two big doors, one on the north end, one on the south. Unfortunately the people who built it didn’t put in windows for ventilation. It was great in the winter but in the summer it could get pretty hot. They did have a riding area outside, but sometimes the heat could get a bit much during midday. Covered arenas don’t exist around here, though sometimes (especially the way summers are now) they would be handy.
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I remember riding in an indoor many years ago on a very hot day in the middle of summer because it was raining pretty hard outside. But holy cow. It was so hot in there it felt like a sauna.
By the time we got done, we were all so soaked with sweat that we might as well have just ridden outside in the rain. Lol.
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I fainted during a lesson inside an indoor arena in the summer. Do not recommend! Thankfully I got down to a walk before passing out/tumbling off, but it has definitely made me wary of riding indoors in the heat.
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What do indoor rings have to do with tariffs?? Besides steel prices
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Wellington was already way down this year, I am sure next year will be even worse. I saw so many entire farms vacant for the entire season and tons of rentals everywhere. I think most of that this year was due to people going to WEC instead of anything related to tariffs however
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A few posts ago, I posted some videos of my guy and I in a massive indoor (we were supposed to go to TBird, he had a big colic episode, no more TBird or tariffs for us this year), which started the indoor train 
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They just announced that all applicants for visas need to disclose all their social media accounts and set them to public, including J visas and M visas. So I’d expect very few foreign grooms or employees or any kind at Florida next year. This is the kind of thing Russia requires btw and it’s a massive hassle and leaves you open to being deported or worse at any time.
Brownfields just cancelled an A show due to low entries, which is worrying enough, but in the long run tariffs may have less impact on the higher level FEI type competitions than the visa issues.
Maybe there will be a resurgence of cheaper smaller shows and local focus, I hope it’s that and not just people getting out of horses permanently.
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