Below, Diagram 1: Horse winter sacrifice area before HoofGrid is installed. Notice the horses avoid walking in the center of this winter sacrifice area/mud lot.
Horse winter sacrifice area before HoofGrid image 1 - horses do not dare to tread into the center of the sacrifice area/mud lot.
Below, Diagram 2: Before HoofGrid, image 2. Notice in the cutout image that the muddy/rocky/manure mix is eight to 10 inches deep.
Before HoofGrid image 2 - notice in the closeup cutout image that the muddy, rocky manure mix is eight to 10 inches deep.
Below, Diagram 3: Installation of HoofGrid - the leveled ground is covered with HoofGrid. Please note that the exposed, installed HoofGrid is shown before backfilling with a well-draining, clean washed angular or rounded pea gravel, or with topsoil and seeded.
Sacrifice area diagram 3, demonstrating the installation of HoofGrid - the leveled ground is covered with HoofGrid; shown exposed before backfilling with a well-draining, clean washed pea gravel and topsoil.
Below, Diagram 4: Sacrifice area, installation of HoofGrid - side view of the installed HoofGrid. Please note this is before backfilling with drainable local medium (with clean gravel or coarse sand, or with non-compacted top soil and seeded, or with a mixture of the above).
Sacrifice area diagram 4, installation of HoofGrid - side view of the installed HoofGrid, before the installed HoofGrid is back-filled with a well-draining local medium (clean gravel, coarse washed sand-grit, or with un-compacted topsoil and seeded with an appropriate pasture forage grass or legume).
Below, Diagram 5: Sacrifice area, after HoofGrid installation - front view. This picture was taken the morning after an overnight heavy rainfall of four inches. Notice there is no mud, and that the horses' hooves remain healthy and safe, clean and dry.
Sacrifice area diagram 5, after HoofGrid installation - this picture taken after an overnight rainfall of four inches. Notice there is not a drop of mud, and that the horses' hooves remain clean and dry.
Below, Diagram 6: Sacrifice area, after HoofGrid installation - a side view of finished dry lot. This paddock may no  longer be referred to as a "mud lot" - because there is never any mud with HoofGrid, ever.
It may not be referred to as a "winter sacrifice area" - because the area is able to sustain healthy grass growth in spite of being used as a dry lot all winter; hence there is no "sacrifice" of the land to the equine traffic.
Sacrifice area diagram 6, after HoofGrid installation - side view of finished dry lot. This paddock may no longer be referred to as a mud lot - no mud ever. It may not be referred to as a sacrifice area, because the area is able to sustain healthy grass growth all summer long - the HoofGrid prevents equine traffic from compacting the soil, and from destroying the paddock grass root zone development; hence there is no 'sacrifice' in this sacrifice area.
No Sacrifice:  The HoofGrid prevents equine traffic from compacting the soil when the ground is dry, and from devastating the paddock grass root zone development, killing the grass, when the ground is saturated.
Hence the introduction of "the no-sacrifice, winter sacrifice area."
Below: A video demonstrating the ease of cleaning a winter-long accumulation of frozen manure and other nutrients, after a long hard winter of nutrient accumulation on this HoofGrid™ "non-sacrifice area" or "no-mud lot." (the same video is available, for either viewing or downloading, in other video formats » Click Here for more.)
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