In this special call-in episode of "In Stride", Sinead is joined again by Tik Maynard for another listener-driven conversation.

Tik Maynard is the 2024 and 2025 Road to the Horse Champion and the author of In the Middle Are the Horsemen and Starting in the Middle. Along with Sinead, he runs Copperline Farm in Citra, Florida, and teaches clinics across the country.

Together, Tik and Sinead respond to a new batch of listener questions, diving into topics including:

• Building in connection and downtime for horses during a busy competition season
• Reading the milestones that show a young horse is ready for its first dressage test or show
• Reframing the decision to retire a horse from "giving up" to knowing when it's time to pivot
• How rhythm and tension in a horse's body are windows into what they're feeling

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