Tristan's approach to the hot, tense horse, in 8 video lessons, from releasing tension in the saddle to rehearsing your whole ride before you get on.
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WHO IS THE HOT HORSE COURSE FOR?
He jogs where other horses walk. Every downward transition is a negotiation, and a loose rein is a promise you cannot make him. You spend the whole ride containing him instead of training him.
Fresh out of the stable he is a coiled spring. You lunge him first, you take him in the walker, you plan your ride around his energy, and still you get on holding your breath.
At home, on a quiet day, he is almost normal. Add wind, a show, or one horse cantering in the next arena, and the lid comes off. You never know which horse you are taking out of the stable.
Your horse does not need to be extreme for this to be worth doing. If you simply want a ride that starts relaxed instead of managed, this is the same work.
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The real problem
A hot horse is not a horse with too much energy. He is a horse whose tension has nowhere to go. It builds in his body, and movement is the only outlet he knows: jogging, rushing, running through the hand. Everything we usually do, holding him, circling him, tiring him out on the lunge, contains the energy without giving it an exit. That is why it works for a day and is back the next morning.
We give the energy a door. He learns to let tension out through his body instead of through his feet, starting with release work in the saddle and the shoulder as the exit. Then you rehearse your actual ride from the ground, so by the time you mount, he has already answered the question that used to set him off.
Your instructor
Tristan spent years working with horses at the top of the sport, and with the horses that were not coping with it. What he kept finding was the same thing: the behaviour everyone was trying to train away was a body that had never learned how to come back down.
The TRT Method came out of that, and it is now used by more than 122,000 riders in over 90 countries. The Hot Horse Course is the part of his riding work built for the horse everyone else just tries to tire out.
Lesson plan
You do not start by taking energy away. You start by giving it somewhere to go, and the first lesson shows you where.
Part 01Why tiring him out never worked.
What is actually driving the jogging and the rushing, and why containment buys you a day at most.
Part 02Tension release, and the shoulder as the exit.
Release work in the saddle, and letting the energy out through the shoulder instead of through his feet.
Part 03He answers the hard questions before you mount.
Simulating your ride from the ground, and translating that rehearsal to under the saddle.
Part 04For the days it does not go to plan.
The groundwork patterns, the same patterns in the saddle, and the answer to backing up.
Eight lessons does not mean eight weeks. The rehearsal from Rehearse the ride fits inside the time you now spend lungeing him before you dare to get on.
Unlock all 8 video lessonsFrequently Asked Questions
The course starts on the ground, and the ride-simulation lessons exist exactly so the hard questions are answered before you are in the saddle. You decide when he is ready for the ridden work, and the troubleshooting lessons cover the horses that need more time.
No. You can start here. If you have done the Reduce Tension Course you will recognise the groundwork patterns and move faster.
Yes. The Hot Horse Course is one of the seven courses inside the TRT Advanced Riding Course. If you own that, the Tristan Tucker Collection or a TRT membership, you already have every lesson on this page.
No. You pay once and keep lifetime access, including all future updates.
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For life. There is no time limit and all future updates to the course are included.
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