{"id":45625,"date":"2019-05-01T17:01:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T07:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=45625"},"modified":"2021-06-07T20:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T10:50:25","slug":"laura-graves-arena-familiarisation-for-verdades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2019\/05\/laura-graves-arena-familiarisation-for-verdades\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Graves &#8211; arena familiarisation for Verdades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45626\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Opener.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Opener.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Opener-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Opener-500x229.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Arena familiarisation day at Aachen, and Laura Graves gives a lesson in preparing your horse at a competition:<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enter Laura Graves and Verdades. They stop in front of the C box, and Laura leans down hands the bay a treat, then a stately walk on the buckle around the ring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45627\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1LauraTreat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1LauraTreat.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1LauraTreat-278x300.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Laura gently takes the snaffle rein, the curb rein hangs in a lazy loop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45628\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1LongReinD1Best.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1LongReinD1Best.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1LongReinD1Best-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1LongReinD1Best-436x300.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Around the outside track a few more times and into the arena, horse so totally relaxed, rider so completely chilled. Icy cool, here we have the Aachen press office piling on the pressure, billing Laura as Isabell&#8217;s (Werth\u2019s) challenger. Does Laura respond to the pressure? Seemingly not &#8211; she has her own minimalist agenda and will not be diverted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45629\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2Laura2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2Laura2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2Laura2-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2Laura2-412x300.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4LegYieldOneHand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4LegYieldOneHand.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4LegYieldOneHand-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4LegYieldOneHand-364x300.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45631\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5Centreline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5Centreline.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5Centreline-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5Centreline-444x300.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Graves and Verdades have a relaxed look at the Aachen arena, how it should be done&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,4],"tags":[638],"class_list":["post-45625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-dressage","tag-laura-graves"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45625"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59134,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45625\/revisions\/59134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}