Thank you for sharing more of your life with us. It’s so nice to have more of a background about the kind of person you are and not just what we see and hear when you are with the horse’s.
Thank you and I look forward to future podcasts

Very reflected and interesting podcast
Shows how animals can get in real konversation with humans

An incredible live experience that you have shared. It is wonderful to hear about the things that have shaped you into becoming where you are now. Sure there will be more to come! 🙂

Absolutely brilliant!!

Excellent, really enjoyed it…was cleaning the stables!

Brilliant it was always going to be. Love everything about you and to hear your voice in my day supreme, even though I was so scared listening to the horse rescue. Amazing. Thank you. Only wish I could make my horse calm but I keep plugging away at the TRT. Improved our connection but not his anxiousness in different situations. Taken on board about our partnership.

I’m an Aussie who’s been in fires, I hope everyone realises just how brave these guys were and what they accomplished. Huge respect. It’s like hell on earth. Deadly. The trees explode before the fire gets anywhere near them because the trees are full of oil. The embers can race kilometres in front of the main fire, starting more fires, trapping you. My friend was in the Ash Wednesday fires and saw horses at full gallop run down by flames.

I remember in one small fire a young horse was galloping around screaming. I couldn’t catch him. So I went to get my old horse and helmet me lead him under the flames and smoke to get the young horse. The young horse came over and calmly followed me and my old horse out. I was so amazed that my old horse calmly followed me to get the young one.

What an incredible story … thank you for sharing with us, Tristan …
I love what you do!

Thanks Tristan, I too, unfortunately have been in a bushfire situation here in SA just over 2 years ago. Extreme circumstances make you think outside the square. I’ve always thought I had been prepared in previous years but its not until you’ve experience the situation that you realise that what you thought might work – “doesn’t. ” I think your guardian angel was watching over you during your heroic rescue, well done.
In summing up I feel foundation training is the most important part of all horses education but of course you already know that. Keep up the good work , love watching your TRT training videos and pods.

Hi Tristan , thank you for sharing your daring and interesting rescue.
How scary for you and your friend. I certainly remember those fires, living , just across the ditch !
I really resonate with your probing thoughts on how we relate to our horses . Also to enabling them to make the right decisions and giving them confidence
It also brought up for me the questions of why do some animals , chose to run towards danger. Is it because their emotions are running So High , they cant cope without a leader?
Do we as mentors of our horses then have to be more creative for these animals in helping them to become more confident and able to manage their emotions?
Do you think the horses with some emotional self control are easier to help.
I guess in the end it comes down to us always questioning how we are relating to our horses, all animals and humans.
I look forward to your next pod cast, and hearing about your journey .

Wow what an experience and you are so lucky to have survived. How amazing to have been able to save those horses.

I enjoyed listening to your first podcast this morning. Being a Victorian Australian the topic brought back many memories including the emotions around the many human and animal lives lost.
I found your account to be honest and respectful of the situation.
I loved gaining new perspective on my horses from listening to your story. I’m sure the energy I carried out to my daily good morning pats to my girls, was different. I also couldn’t help but to observe them with slightly different eyes.
Congratulations, I’m looking forward to the next podcast! 😁🐴

Loved listening to the first podcast. I myself am another Aussie living in the Hunter Valley. We had a fire go through a few years back. I was at work and could see smoke coming from the direction of my paddocks. We lived on a Thoroughbred stud that my husband worked at so I rang him to see if the fires were close to my horses. He said they were ok it looked further away then my paddocks. About 10 min later I left work with a gut feeling that they were not safe,(35min drive to paddocks)at the same time my husband thought he had better go check them. I arrived to find the paddocks(about40 acres) totally burnt out. My husband was putting out the fire on the fence post and I was terrified as to what state the ponies were in. My husband caught me as I started to run towards where they were to tell me they were all ok. Apparently as he arrived he could only see one older mare in the already burnt out area. She was always the grumpy one. Kept all the youngsters in line. She only had to look at them and they would get out of her way. The paddock was full on alight and travelling up hill fast my husband said. He couldn’t get anywhere near the horses as they were up in the bushy corner near the top of the hill in front of the fire. While he was panicking thinking i would kill him for telling me not to leave work because the fire wasnt near the horses the old mare ran up the fence line into the fire and came flying out along the other fence line with the other four younsters in tow. When I walked up there you could see where they had been trapped in a corner, the ground was all churned up. So the grumpy, bossey old mare had taken it appon herself to go bring the rest out to safety. Besides a little frazzled hair not one of them was hurt! Every bit of the paddock was totally burned but she had saved them all. Fire was started by a trailer wheels bearings over heating and the wheel coming off and rolling into the paddock down hill from mine!
Love the work you do. We are never to old to learn. I’ve been pretty successful with my show ponies over 40 year or so and working with other peoples horses, plus night watchman on Tb studs but you have tough me quite a bit recently. So thank you.
Cheers Jo