It’s no surprise that throughout our conversation he referenced several different books that supported his philosophy on horse training (more on that later). To be a good writer, my guess is you have to be a good reader,” Tik says. ” Surprisingly, he hadn’t done much writing prior to that except during university, where he majored in history. He logged his working student experiences first for a British Columbian magazine called “ Gaitpost” and later for “The Chronicle of the Horse. Both those projects - writing a book and being a working student - I think I was naive about how hard it was to even do one, much less both.” “I had the idea right from the beginning that it might be possible to make it into a book. “I’d never been a working student before,” Tik says. Ten years after he began his chronicles, he collected his stories into one - his first published book released last summer, “ In the Middle are the Horsemen.” During this time, he wrote articles about his experience. Intent on working with the best of the best, he did not limit himself to a specific discipline or region of the world. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Tik set out to be a working student in his mid-20s. For Tik Maynard, growing up and building a life around horses has also been a path to self-discovery. No matter how many hours logged in the saddle or how many ribbons won, horses have a way of bringing us back down to earth, humbling us, teaching us, forcing us to improve so that they may also be better. A life with horses is a never-ending journey of education.
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