Aubrey Graham

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Thoroughbred Logic: Use Your Core

“The combination of core and confidence make a positive-reinforcing cycle that lead to greater strength, and for lack of a better synonym, greater confidence. Together they allow a rider to sit up, add the necessary leg, take a deep breath and release while staying centered over the horse.”

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Thoroughbred Logic: All the Potential

“[T]here are the [horses] that might not have the most impressive height, might not have a pedigree with the most known sires, might not have perfectly straight legs, or might not be the easiest ride between the ears … Those are the horses that I find exciting. They’re the diamond in the rough horses.”

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Thoroughbred Logic: The Balance – Speed Relationship

“…if you can get your horse balanced . . . they can collect, they can turn, and they

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Thoroughbred Logic: The Art of Tying

“… what I do create here, and what this article is about, is a horse who ties well

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Thoroughbred Logic: The Kick Ride Debacle

“Riding a horse who is … not tip top, might require more of a push … to get

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Thoroughbred Logic: Go Cross Country School

“You are never truly ready, and there are always excuses or more training that ought to be done.

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Thoroughbred Logic: Bungee Elbows for the Win

“No matter how fast your fingers are at opening and closing — holding and releasing tension — your

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Thoroughbred Logic: Fighting “Flight Syndrome”

“I expect that when asked, my horses would ride towards what they should run away from. The gallop-off-into-the-sunset

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Thoroughbred Logic: Getting Turnout (More) Right

“He looked at one puddle-fence combination, but otherwise clicked around his courses, did everything asked and hung out

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Thoroughbred Logic: Embrace the Chaos (But Have Boundaries)

“I think these often-comical personalities exist in each of these horses, but there actually is a recipe to

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Thoroughbred Logic: Finding the Flow

“In riding, whether flatting, jumping, executing a dressage test, or smartly blasting around cross country, we all think

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Thoroughbred Logic: Transitions & The Post

“The me who raced my redheaded Appendix down dirt roads and knew every stretch of potentially hundreds of

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Thoroughbred Logic: Does Size Really Matter?

“… to exclude the good ones because they are a touch too short seems silly and often tells

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Thoroughbred Logic: Do Not Move

“In contrast, when one slows one’s body down, the slow translates from the rider to the horse; steady,

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Thoroughbred Logic: Fixing the Head Tilt

“Correcting head tilts, therefore, comes in at the point where the horse is pushing from behind and elevating

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Thoroughbred Logic: Horse Profiles, The Good Kid

“I know that as a good horse gains the hope and the expectations that sneak in, they often

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Thoroughbred Logic: The Barn Beer Hack

Anyone who has ever had a horse — Thoroughbred or not! — has likely said, “This horse is

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Thoroughbred Logic: Keep A Door Open

“…perhaps one of the absolutely most important things to riding young, green, anxious or slightly nutty horses is

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Thoroughbred Logic: Rehabbing Injuries, Part Two — Surviving Stall Rest

“Overall, stall rest sucks. But, with patience and a little tactful creativity, most horses make it out and

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Thoroughbred Logic: Rehabbing Injuries, Part One

This week’s Thoroughbred Logic is the first part of a series on injury rehab. Today’s article takes a

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Thoroughbred Logic: New Year’s Perspective (And Ten Training Tactics That Work)

“I’m going to chalk 2022 up to being a transitional year – one where the building and the

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Thoroughbred Logic: In Front Of The Leg

“[T]he biggest determining factor of getting around a course successfully is having the horse in front of the

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Thoroughbred Logic: The Slow Down

“[H]ere’s hoping the breaks that you take are those you choose — with an eye to growth and

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Thoroughbred Logic: Have a Plan

“The same goes for jumping … There’s a plan to the fence and after the fence. Having a

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Thoroughbred Logic: The Starter Kit

“So according to me (from the point of view of an Eventer making sweeping statements), here’s a ‘where

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