Wrapping up 2017
Happy holidays, everyone! It has been a big year for ETB Equine Construction, including The Fork CIC3*, the American Eventing Championships, and the Central Park Horse Show in addition to our regular big events like Plantation Field, Fair Hill Stable View Aiken as well as the…
ETB at the 2017 Fair Hill International CCI
We’ve got another successful event at the Fair Hill International in the books. The two star started off slow – five of the first horses fell off and then things got going and we saw the results that we were expecting. In all there were a…
ETB is Ready for 2017 Fair Hill International
We got a ton of good rain Monday and Tuesday and after a few weeks of sunshine it’s now green, cold and wet – it’s Fair Hill weather after all! This year the two and three-star cross country courses are going the same direction and there’s…
2017 Central Park Arena Eventing
Slide show photos copyright Amber Heintzberger. Please email amberwriter(at)aol.com for more information about ETB Equine Construction or if you would like a copy of a specific photo for media use. The Central Park Horse Show Arena Eventing Challenge was a major logistical challenge for our crew.…
Gearing Up for the New Year
Once again we will be the course builders for the Wellington Eventing Showcase, January 5-6, which is similar to what we did last year. This is an easy year for us at this event since we are using jumps that we used last year, and some…
Making Improvements to Plantation Field
While nobody sitting at home is thinking about Plantation Field yet, a lot of people behind the scenes are thinking about it and taking steps to improve the course for next year’s event. We just finished doing all the dirt work to reverse the one, two…
2016 Fair Hill International
Last weekend we wrapped up the Fair Hill International CCI3* and CCI2*. To start with, it was probably the most amazing Fair Hill weather week possible! In fact it was probably the nicest weather of the year – it’s rare you go outside seven days in…
From HorseCollaborative
This blog entry originally appeared on HorseCollaborative.com in June, 2015. While we are not currently looking for help here at ETB, it’s worth reading over the job description if you’ve ever considered building horse jumps for a living. We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented…
The Pros and Cons of Frangible Pins
This blog first appeared on HorseCollaborative.com in September, 2015 This year’s Plantation Field International was a really similar course to last year, but things got interesting on Sunday with a lot of horses galloping home without their riders. I don’t think the big fences were necessarily…
Let us help you achieve your goals with your young horses…
Most simply, small, inviting fences help get horses going and confident while leading them down a road in their training to where they can answer a more complicated question. In buying a small set of portables and building a small schooling course for yourself, you need…