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SPOOKY HORSE CHALLENGE
By Tristan Tucker

Fourteen days. One braver horse. So the scary corner becomes just a corner.

One short task a day for two weeks, from measuring your horse's distance on day one to riding the pattern on day thirteen, with two challenge days along the way.

Spooky Horse Challenge
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  • ✓One clear task each day
  • ✓Spot tension before it becomes a spook
  • ✓Finish with the pattern under saddle
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WHO IS THE SPOOKY HORSE CHALLENGE FOR?

You and your horse know the corner. Two weeks changes it.

  • The horse who spooks at the same three things

    The gate, the mirror, the far end when the wind is up. You ride around it, you avoid it on bad days, and both of you have quietly agreed that part of the arena belongs to your horse.

  • The rider who wants a plan, not a library

    You have watched hours of training videos and done almost none of it. Fourteen days with one task each is the opposite of a library: it is small enough that you actually do it.

  • The combination that needs a win

    Nothing dramatic is wrong. It has just been a while since anything got visibly better, and you would like proof that it can.

Sound familiar?

  • Your horse spooks at things passed a hundred times before.
  • You know exactly which corner it will be before you tack up.
  • Your horse is fine until something moves, and then everything changes.
  • You have bought training you never worked through.
  • Ten minutes a day you can do. An hour you cannot.
  • You want to see the change, not just be told it happened.
  • You would like the far end of the arena back.

"Your horse does not have to be genuinely spooky. Plenty of riders use the fourteen days as a structured reset with an ordinary horse who simply stopped paying attention."

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THE REAL PROBLEM

Your horse is reacting to tension, not just the object.

The plastic bag has never hurt a horse. Neither has the mirror, the mounting block or the wheelbarrow that lives in the same spot every day. What changes is not the object, but how much tension is already sitting in your horse's body and whether there is any way to release it other than through the feet.

Change the body part

Getting your horse used to one scary thing does not carry over to the next scary thing. You have solved one object, while your horse's body is unchanged and the world contains an unlimited supply of objects. Your horse learns to find relaxation while tension is present, in small daily doses, and at the end you ride the pattern that proves it.

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

Your instructor

Meet Tristan Tucker.

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 Spooky Horse Challenge is the shortest way into Tristan's work: two weeks, one task a day, and a horse who ends it looking at the world differently.

THE 14 DAYS

One task a day. That is the whole commitment.

You start today with a measurement, not an exercise. Knowing your horse's distance is what makes every day after it work.

Week 1 · Read and start moving your horse

  1. Day 1Measuring distance
  2. Day 2Leading safely
  3. Day 3Finding tension points
  4. Day 4Mindset and cause
  5. Day 5⚡ Challenge time
  6. Day 6Moving the hind legs
  7. Day 7Moving the front legs

Week 2 · Build the pattern, then ride it

  1. Day 8The first pattern
  2. Day 9Carrying posture
  3. Day 10Get moving for balance
  4. Day 11⚡ Challenge time
  5. Day 12The pattern with the saddle
  6. Day 13The pattern under saddle
  7. Day 14🏆 Show off your progress

Fourteen days, and none of them ask for more time than picking out your horse's feet. Miss a day and you pick it up the next one.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Before you decide.

No. Fourteen days describes the recommended sequence of lessons, not an access window. You keep lifetime content access to the course, and there is no access expiry.

No start date and no group deadline. You begin the day you buy it and go at your own speed.

Roughly ten to fifteen minutes with your horse, plus a short video. It is built to fit into a normal yard visit, not to replace one.

The challenge is a structured introduction, not a rehabilitation programme. If your horse is putting you in danger, start on the ground, take longer over the first week than fourteen days allows, and get someone experienced there with you.

No. You pay once and receive lifetime access to the course content and complete 14-day curriculum.

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

You have lifetime content access with no expiry. The recommended curriculum takes 14 days, but your access does not end after day 14.

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Your course, at a glance

Week 1 · Read and start moving your horse

  1. 1Measuring distance
  2. 2Leading safely
  3. 3Finding tension points
  4. 4Mindset and cause
  5. 5Challenge time
  6. 6Moving the hind legs
  7. 7Moving the front legs

Week 2 · Build the pattern, then ride it

  1. 8The first pattern
  2. 9Carrying posture
  3. 10Get moving for balance
  4. 11Challenge time
  5. 12The pattern with the saddle
  6. 13The pattern under saddle
  7. 14Show off your progress
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Spooky Horse Challenge

14 days · 14 tasks

    €69one-time
    • ✓All 14 daily tasks, with video
    • ✓Two challenge days and a final progress day
    • ✓Access to the TRT community and its database of answered questions
    • ✓Lifetime content access to the complete 14-day curriculum
    • ✓30-day money back guarantee
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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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