Aubrey Graham
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.” →
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.” →
Thoroughbred Logic: The Balance – Speed Relationship
“…if you can get your horse balanced . . . they can collect, they can turn, and they →
Thoroughbred Logic: The Art of Tying
“… what I do create here, and what this article is about, is a horse who ties well →
Thoroughbred Logic: The Kick Ride Debacle
“Riding a horse who is … not tip top, might require more of a push … to get →
Thoroughbred Logic: Go Cross Country School
“You are never truly ready, and there are always excuses or more training that ought to be done. →
Thoroughbred Logic: Bungee Elbows for the Win
“No matter how fast your fingers are at opening and closing — holding and releasing tension — your →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Thoroughbred Logic: Finding the Flow
“In riding, whether flatting, jumping, executing a dressage test, or smartly blasting around cross country, we all think →
Thoroughbred Logic: Transitions & The Post
“The me who raced my redheaded Appendix down dirt roads and knew every stretch of potentially hundreds of →
Thoroughbred Logic: Does Size Really Matter?
“… to exclude the good ones because they are a touch too short seems silly and often tells →
Thoroughbred Logic: Do Not Move
“In contrast, when one slows one’s body down, the slow translates from the rider to the horse; steady, →
Thoroughbred Logic: Fixing the Head Tilt
“Correcting head tilts, therefore, comes in at the point where the horse is pushing from behind and elevating →
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 →
Thoroughbred Logic: The Barn Beer Hack
Anyone who has ever had a horse — Thoroughbred or not! — has likely said, “This horse is →
Thoroughbred Logic: Keep A Door Open
“…perhaps one of the absolutely most important things to riding young, green, anxious or slightly nutty horses is →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Thoroughbred Logic: The Slow Down
“[H]ere’s hoping the breaks that you take are those you choose — with an eye to growth and →
Thoroughbred Logic: Have a Plan
“The same goes for jumping … There’s a plan to the fence and after the fence. Having a →
Thoroughbred Logic: The Starter Kit
“So according to me (from the point of view of an Eventer making sweeping statements), here’s a ‘where →