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FARRIER COURSE
By Tristan Tucker

Four feet, calmly, without holding him. So the farrier books you back in.

Twenty-one video lessons that build relaxed feet handling from the first touch to the tie-up space, so trimming and shoeing happen without sedation, without a helper hanging on his head, and without anyone getting hurt.

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  • ✓Find your horse's relaxed starting point
  • ✓Teach lift, hold and three-leg balance
  • ✓Prepare for tools and noise beforehand
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WHO IS THE FARRIER COURSE FOR?

Six weeks come around fast when you dread them.

  • The appointment you apologise through

    You hold his head, someone else holds a leg, and you spend forty minutes saying sorry. The farrier is patient about it, which somehow makes it worse, and you already know how the next visit goes.

  • The horse who is fine until the hind legs

    Fronts, no problem. The moment anyone reaches behind, he leans, snatches or goes up. You have learned to warn people, and warning people is not a solution.

  • The sedation you would rather not book

    It works, it costs money every time, and it trains nothing. Somewhere you know that a sedated horse is not a horse who learned anything, he is a horse who missed the lesson.

Sound familiar?

  • You need a second person for every trim.
  • He snatches the leg back within seconds of it being lifted.
  • He leans his whole weight onto whoever is holding the foot.
  • The hind legs are a different animal from the fronts.
  • Your farrier has hinted, kindly, that something needs to change.
  • He is fine for you and impossible for anyone else.
  • You have sedated him for feet and felt bad about it afterwards.

"This is not only for the difficult ones. A young horse who learns feet handling properly the first time never becomes the horse in the paragraphs above."

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THE REAL PROBLEM

He isn't reacting to the object. He's reacting to his own body.

Standing on three legs is a genuinely vulnerable thing for a prey animal. He cannot leave, he cannot balance the way he normally would, and a stranger is holding the leg he would need to move first.

Start where the training actually starts

None of that is about the farrier, and none of it is about the hoof. Hold harder and he learns that the leg gets trapped, which is the exact conclusion you did not want him to reach. So we build the opposite. First a relaxed starting point and control through the feet on the ground. Then touch, then lifting, then holding, then balance on three legs, each one only when the one before it is genuinely easy. The tools and the noise come last, before a farrier ever needs to be present.

Farrier Course lesson
Tristan Tucker riding a black horse in passage at a Grand Prix dressage competition

Your instructor

Meet Tristan Tucker.

Tristan Tucker has spent years working with horses whose tension made handling, assessment and treatment difficult or unsafe.

His approach gives professionals a structured way to read the horse, organise the interaction and create more cooperation without confusing force with control.

The Farrier Course is Tristan's work applied to the appointment nobody can skip, and it is one of the fastest places to see the method pay for itself.

LESSON PLAN

From the ground, to the leg, to the tools.

You start without touching a foot. Where he is relaxed today is the honest beginning.

Part 01

The relaxed starting point

Know the horse in front of you before you ask for a leg.

  • Find the relaxed starting point, and know the horse
  • The leading exercise, and assessing your own energy levels
  • Finding stability, and control through the feet
Part 02

Touch, and the legs

Preparation, in the order his body accepts.

  • Tension release points
  • Preparation for touch
  • Handling the legs
Part 03

The hoof

Lift, hold, balance, and when to stop.

  • Lifting and holding the hoof
  • Balance on three legs
  • Pausing at the right moment, and awareness of your energy
Part 04

The real appointment

Tools, noise, and the space it actually happens in.

  • Introducing the farrier's tools
  • The horse who pulls away, and rebalancing the hind leg
  • Practical guidance, and advancing to the tie-up space

Twenty-one lessons, and the first two change what your farrier walks into.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Before you decide.

Give yourself a shoeing cycle if you can. Real change in the hind legs takes a few weeks of short sessions, and starting the week before rarely leaves enough room.

Not during the training, and it helps enormously if they know you are doing it. Most farriers will happily give you an extra five minutes at the next visit if they can see where it is going.

Yes. The Farrier Course is one of the thirteen courses in that bundle. If you own the bundle or a TRT membership, you already have every lesson on this page.

No. You pay once and keep lifetime access, including all future updates.

You have a 30-day money back guarantee. Email us within 30 days of your purchase and you get every cent back.

For life. There is no time limit and all future updates to the course are included.

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Take the Farrier Course on its own, or get it with twelve more courses for the situations where it always goes wrong.

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Farrier Course

21 video lessons

  • The relaxed starting point
  • Touch, and the legs
  • The hoof
  • The real appointment
€97€79one-time
  • ✓All 21 video lessons
  • ✓Live monthly Q&As with Tristan
  • ✓Access to the TRT community and its database of answered questions
  • ✓Lifetime access, including all future updates
  • ✓30-day money back guarantee
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BestValueComplete bundle

Reduce Tension Bundle

Get the Farrier Course and twelve more courses for the situations where it always goes wrong.

€397€249one-time
  • ✓Everything in the Farrier Course
  • ✓Trailer Loading Course, 30 lessons
  • ✓Relaxing Stable Exercises, 29 lessons
  • ✓Vet Course, 18 lessons
  • ✓Clipping Course, 11 lessons
  • ✓Compete Stress-Free, 7 lessons
  • ✓Horse Shyness Course, 7 lessons
  • ✓Separation Anxiety Course, 6 lessons
  • ✓Everyday handling, leading, the wash bay and fireworks training
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Follow the steps, see how your horse responds. If you feel this is not for you and your horse, email us within 30 days and you get every cent back.

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