Let’s learn more about Tik!
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Rooted in Family…
Tik is the son of Rick and Jennifer Maynard. Rick was an international Three-Day Event rider in the 70’s. After that he became a Grand Prix Show jumper, and the Maynard family would travel to Spruce Meadows every summer. Rick still rides and coaches in Southland’s, Vancouver, Canada. Jen was a Grand Prix Dressage rider and is a four star Para Dressage judge. Tik’s parents also authored a book on horse photography, Horses In Focus, published by Half Halt Press. Tik’s family in Vancouver run Southland’s Heritage Farm. Tik’s younger brother, and his family, run Gibson’s Heritage Farm, on the Sunshine Coast, in B.C.
Early Beginnings
Tik was in Pony Club from ages 6 to 21. He achieved his ‘A’ level in 2002. He was Canadian National Champion in Tetrathlon (2000). He was part of the National Champion Team in PPG (1997), and part of the Canadian Team that won gold in Kentucky in 1998.
Tik received his Bachelor of Arts (History) from the University of British Columbia in 2005.
For much of his twenties Tik competed full time in the sport of Modern Pentathlon (running, swimming, shooting, fencing, show jumping). Tik was on the Canadian National Team and won the National Championships twice. He also competed at multiple World Cups, World Championships, and at the 2007 Pan-Am Games in Rio.
Since 2008 Tik has been training horses full time. After spending three years as a working student he became the assistant trainer to Anne Kursinski, then the head trainer at Bow Brickhill Stables in New Jersey. After marrying Sinead, Tik started his own business, then in 2016, after Tik and Sinead bought Copperline Farm in Citra (just north of Ocala), they merged their businesses into one.
Tik has evented at the Advanced level and been Long-Listed and Short-Listed for Canadian National Three-Day Event Team.
Tik won the Freestyle twice at the Thoroughbred Makeover (2015, 2018) and also judged it once (2017).
Tik teaches clinics in the United States, Canada, England, and Scotland. He is also an online instructor for The Horseman’s University and for the Noelle Floyd Equestrian Masterclass. He is a regular guest on podcasts, and a contributor to Practical Horseman, Noelle Floyd, Chronicle of the Horse, Horsemen's Journal and others. Tik is a columnist (quarterly) for Off-Track Thoroughbred Magazine (2015-present).
Tik is the author of In The Middle Are The Horsemen, published by Trafalgar Square Books, 2018 (also published in German, 2020).