Tik Maynard

Copperline Farm

Tik started his horse journey in Pony Club from ages 6 to 21. He achieved his ‘A’ level in 2002. He has always been an athlete. Tik 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 in 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 fellow equestrian Sinead, Tik started his own training business, which he merged together with Sinead in 2016 with the addition of Copperline Farms in Citra, FL.

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 was also asked to judge this prestigious event in 2017. Most Recently, Tik was invited to compete in the internationally recognized 2024 “Road to the Horse” colt starting competition which he swept with a first place finish on all three days and the Championship.

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 also the author of a book titled “In The Middle Are The Horsemen”, published by Trafalgar Square Books in 2018 and available for sale on Amazon.