Aubrey Graham
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Turning Well
“For the green Thoroughbred, turning this way allows them to forgo speed and antics. It allows them to be ridden forward in front of your leg and complete the circles, squares, figure-eights, whatever is asked without changing their pace.” →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Let It Go (The Inside Rein)
“A primary consequence of the inside rein is that it tips a horse onto their forelimbs and off of the hind. A knock-on set of results are that it speeds a horse up and becomes harder for the horse to come over their back, create a powerful push from behind and correct… frame.” →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Why Change & Chaos Are ‘Easy’
“I am proud of them for their quiet strolls around the facility, their eager walk (but willingness to stay at a walk) as we carouse through the woods. But I’m not surprised. They are Thoroughbreds, after all.” →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Bring on the Backup Plans
Horses will teach you many things … but these past two months, the learning has been this: you’ll →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Ride the Big Trot
“With support, the trot that will develop from that too-speedy, too-big forward jumble is often a pushing, powerful, →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Square Peg, Round Hole
“Deciding what to do with a horse is about appropriateness and fit. And that applies for both the →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: How To Stop Gripping the Go Button
“Balance means the ability to flow with what the horse tosses at you and the capacity to retain →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Confirm the Ask
“The more practiced the language of ask and confirm, the more ‘normal paced’ things can go and the →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: The Try and Its Anxiety
“99.99% of the Thoroughbreds I have swung a leg over respond with utter enthusiasm and a golden-retriever-like sense →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: The Shopping Cart Feel
“The cart idea not only keeps people from pulling, riding backwards or balancing off the bit, but also →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Crafting a “Thoroughbred-Forward” Team
“[W]hen the owner, trainer, and barn staff are Thoroughbred-forward, that’s fantastic. But it is even better if the →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Weighted, Waiting Aids
“So go ride, folks. And if your horse scoots out from under your aids, relax, weight your aids, →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: They Don’t Care If They Show
“I have to remind myself that if I’m not on top of my competition game for a couple →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Hold Don’t Pull
“Reward the try, and as the situation arises again, ask again. The half-halt through a full-body hold, allows →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Make It Predictable
“Each day, we change it up a bit … While I fully believe that keeping it interesting and →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Good Grids
“It is often the slow repetitive progression through without rider interference that helps them think and slow their →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Lifting the Core & the Ruler Metaphor
“Simply put, to ‘come over its back,’ a horse must engage its core.” →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Pain or Behavior?
“I imagine that, like people, there are no horses who feel no discomfort when asked to work. They →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: And The Dreaded Ulcers
We all know that horses get ulcers. The causes are wide and varied. There’s no silver bullet when →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Transitioning to Wet Feed
“I’m not going to lie, the sound of slurping humans makes me want to gag, but a barn →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: How To Get (& Keep) Them Straight
“Steering and straightness have to be created and managed, not just assumed.” →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: It’s (Not) Fine.
“Letting it be hard is hard in this industry. There is no good ability to stop. The chores →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Troubleshooting the Thoroughbred
“If you’re at an impasse, if you’re stuck… there are always other[s]… to talk to… Aim for folks →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Rider Balance and the Thoroughbred
“I spend an inordinate amount of my life thinking about what ‘works’ when riding and training Thoroughbreds … →
Thoroughbred Logic, Presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Develop by Allowing
“Allowing them to sort it out and to have that support … creates a space for trust to →