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Trusted by more than 45,000 equestrians

Start your young horse, without stress.

Give your horse the stress-free start to life he deserves, from the first haltering to the first ride. It’s all in the handling. I’ll show you how.

FIND OUT HOW

Trusted by more than 45,000 equestrians

Start your young horse, without stress.

Give your horse the stress-free start to life he deserves, from the first haltering to the first ride. It’s all in the handling. I’ll show you how.

FIND OUT HOW

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Trusted by more than 40,000 equestrians

Start your young horse, without stress.

Give your horse the stress-free start to life he deserves, from the first haltering to the first ride. It’s all in the handling. I’ll show you how.

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Forget the old term 'breaking in'.

Breaking in, or sitting on your unbacked horse until they’re exhausted and ‘calm’, isn’t preparing.

Just like it isn’t beneficial to halter your foal with force, waiting until they stop struggling.

It’s flooding your horse, leaving them with no other response than falling back on their flight or fight instinct.

Instead, lead them to success by teaching before doing.

The TRT Young Horses Course is designed to help you with this. It will give you the tools to start your horse in the right way, step by step.

Will you join horse owners from all over the world? From recreational riders to top-level trainers and riders from all kinds of disciplines?

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Introducing you to the

Young Horses Course

This course is for you if you want to...

  • Prepare your young horse for riding without stress
  • Want to learn the steps needed to start handling a foal
  • Reduce tension and spookiness now and later
  • Want to fill in the gaps to your (older) horse's training
  • Have a horse that feels confident in any environment
“We’ve learnt so many things and the horses have improved their behaviour impressively. Tristan’s horsemanship and knowledge are admiring!”
Beatriz Ferrer-Salat
Beatriz Ferrer-SalatSpanish Olympian dressage rider
“Tristan is a true horse wizard, there’s no one like him out there. True horsemanship, that’s what Tristan’s really good at teaching. It’s something everyone working with horses needs to have.”
Christoffer Nilsson
Christoffer NilssonCC Dressage

“As horse owners, it's our jobs to give our horses a life better than nature intended.”

Tristan Tucker

I've given hundreds of horses a stress-free start to life.

In the last 30 years I’ve worked with all kinds of horses, from wild horses in Australia, to warmbloods Europe and the United States. 

This has given me the opportunity to develop my own system. 

A system to help young horses feel more relaxed and confident during the process of becoming a riding horse. I call this system the TRT method and I feel very grateful that, so far, I’ve had the opportunity to help thousands of riders and horses. 

And the good news? From receiving success stories from all over the world, we now know that anyone can do TRT method.

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I've given hundreds of horses a stress-free start to life.

In the last 30 years I’ve worked with all kinds of horses, from wild horses in Australia, to warmbloods Europe and the United States. 

This has given me the opportunity to develop my own system. 

A system to help young horses feel more relaxed and confident during the process of becoming a riding horse. I call this system the TRT method and I feel very grateful that, so far, I’ve had the opportunity to help thousands of riders and horses. 

And the good news? From receiving success stories from all over the world, we now know that anyone can do TRT method.

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How TRT Method helped these riders

Claire Gallimore - U25 Grand Prix dressage rider, United Kingdom
Rixt van der Horst - World Champion WEG Para Dressage, The Netherlands
Nancy Lavoie - Grand Prix dressage rider, USA
Jacqueline Brooks - Grand Prix dressage rider, Canada
Eliane Cordia, van Reesema - Grand Prix dressage rider, USA
Arlène “Tuny” Page - Grand Prix dressage rider, USA
Lesley-Ann Broersen - The Netherlands
Helen Hirschman en Desiree Vriesde - The Netherlands

"Shh... be quiet, we're training a young horse."

It’s human nature to avoid triggers.

But here’s the deal: your horse is only spooky because he doesn’t know better.

No horse chooses to be stressed or anxious. He isn’t “naughty” or “difficult”.

 

That's of course nonsense. It's just about preparing your horse well.

The same goes for your young horse.

You can teach him how to be confident and in control of the situation.

And sooner rather than later, you’ll find yourself reaching your goals with a relaxed horse.

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All the help you need, from foal to confident riding horse.

Starting a Young Horse

This course explains to you how to start your horse stress-free under saddle and gives your young horse the best confident start to life. It gives you an exact breakdown of my 9-step video you saw with hours of step-by-step videos.

  • Teach confident postures
  • Introducing tack and gear
  • Ride for the first time

And you'll get these two age-specific modules for FREE:

Foal Handling

Suitable for the first days to the first few months, this module helps you get the first great experiences with your foal.

  • Create a positive first connection
  • Teach to lift legs for the farrier
  • Halter for the first time

Training Yearlings

This course follows right up on the Foal Handling course and guides you after your foal is weaned.

  • Suitable (light) work for your yearling
  • Examples with two youngsters
  • Step-by-step approach

TRT Young Horses Course

Providing you with all the tools you need for your young horse.

STEP-BY-STEP VIDEOS​

Clear and detailed videos in which Tristan teaches you the training method.

ASK QUESTIONS​

Ask your questions during the monthly live Q&As or even send in videos and get Tristan’s feedback.

3 AGE-SPECIFIC MODULES

To help you at any and every stage of your young horse's life.

ONE YEAR ACCESS​

Get Full access to all the training material and new material we’ll add.​

CONNECT WITH OTHER MEMBERS

in our TRT Online Community and share your experiences.

FAQ DATABASE​

With more than 200 questions, chances are you’ll find an answer to your question to help you in your training.​

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This is how the Starting a Young Horse course is set up:

Finding your starting point

  • Preparation

The first part of the online training is focused on finding your starting point. 

Putting it into practice

  • Step #1 and #2

In this segment, I'll teach you everything you need to know about the groundwork patterns.

 

Videos that are included: 

- Is your horse present?
- The leading exercise
- Basic control of the body
- What it is to make contact
- Tension release points
- The tools

Saddling

  • Step #3, #4 and #5

With these videos, you'll teach your horse all he needs to know to feel relaxed and safe with the saddle

 

Videos that are included: 

- Preparing for the girth
- The saddling
- Creating a posture for carrying, part 1 and 2
- The tools
- Feeling free to move through a scary world
- Unsaddling

Bridling

  • Step #6, #7 and #8

It's time to move on to the bridle. With these steps, you'll teach your horse all he needs to know about the bridle, from picking the bit up to steering.

 

Videos that are included: 

- Choose your bridle
- Making sure the mouth is healthy
- Preparing for the bit
- Putting in the bit
- Shape for the carrying posture
- Backing up
- Get into the position of riding, part 1 and 2
- Preparing for a rider in the saddle
- Taking the bridle off

The first ride!

  • Step #9

This is where the magic happens: we're getting on! In this module, you'll learn how to get on and have your first relaxed ride with your horse.

 

Videos that are included: 

- Foot in stirrup
- Putting the leg over
- First steps under saddle
- Finding shape on the circle
- Getting on the track and past scary spots
- First canter
- First ride outside

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Can I do all this by myself?

To be honest, when I launched the first videos of my Starting a Young Horse course, I wasn’t sure if people would be able to do it just based on the online training. 

But I was really amazed when I started to see the results of the members in the Community. 

Truth to be told… they were even doing better than the students I was teaching at my own stable. 

It turns out that watching the videos and doing everything step-by-step is extremely valuable. It gives you the chance to go back, evaluate and adapt.

It becomes a habit, instead of just a lesson.

Can I do all this by myself?

To be honest, when I launched the first videos of my Starting a Young Horse course, I wasn’t sure if people would be able to do it just based on the online training. 

But I was really amazed when I started to see the results of the members in the Community. 

Truth to be told… they were even doing better than the students I was teaching at my own stable. 

It turns out that watching the videos and doing everything step-by-step is extremely valuable. It gives you the chance to go back, evaluate and adapt.

It becomes a habit, instead of just a lesson.

I followed the TRT module with my three-year old pony Aramis, who did a very good job. When I saddled Aramis for the first time, you can see how the TRT self-management worked for him. He is relaxed and at the few moments he does feel some tension, he releases it very well on his own.
Edith-Marjan Pijlman
Edith-Marjan PijlmanTRT Method Member
The TRT Young Horses module set-up is great and takes you on a step-by-step journey. With the good instructions in the course I managed to transform my young horse--who did not know anything--into a very sweet, happy and hard-working riding horse.
Jolanda Timmerman
Jolanda TimmermanTRT Method Member

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  • Q&As with me to get personal help
  • Step-by-step videos from foal to riding horse
  • 57% discount on the entire Young Horse Course
  • Access to a supportive Community with like-minded people

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Limited time bonus: get the Schooling Course for FREE!

Get all the tools you need for the perfect future with your riding horse, now for free!

My Schooling Course helps you teach your horse new dressage movements in a healthy, empowering and stress-free way.

The Double Lunge course will help your horse find their strength and balance in the work without the rider. This is perfect for helping young horses find their feet with the saddle.

Questions?

Are you in doubt whether this training is suitable? Or do you perhaps have another pressing question? Read our answers to frequently asked questions.

Definitely! Even if your horse is already backed, following these steps will help fill in the possible gaps in their training.

You’ll teach them everything they need to know about the concept of riding.

Absolutely! This course is designed to prepare you and your horse for the change into a riding horse.

That means that you can start with this method long before your horse is ridden for the first time.

Working this module gives your horse all the tools he needs to feel confident and relaxed when backed, even when it’s done by a professional.

Welcome, rookie! 🙂

Once you’ve chosen to become a member, we’ll email you a set of login information so you can enter our website.

Almost right away you’ll see the training overview, listing all the specific training courses we created.

You can watch the videos whenever you want and how often you want – no limits, you just need to be connected to internet.

If you find that the online course is a bit too challenging, you can ask advice 24/7 from our support heroes to get going.

With the Young Horses course, you’ll get the following training modules: 
– Foal Handling
– Training Yearlings
– Starting a Young Horse 

These are all the tools you need to give your young horse the best start to life possible. 

Remember that the community is here to help. You can ask fellow members for advice in the Training Questions board, or you can join in on the monthly Live Q&A with a video and I’ll answer your question personally.

Get the Young Horses Course with 57% off!

4-month plan

One year access
€89
€ 39 Monthly
  • Stops automatically
  • 90-day warranty
Get one year access for 4 payments of €39
Not happy? Money back, guaranteed.

One-time payment

One year access
€348
€ 149
  • One-time payment
  • 90-day full money back warranty
Get one year access for €149
Not happy? Money back, guaranteed.
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