Heels Down Happy Hour Podcast Episode 124: The Road To … Cold Manure
Does your vet want your manure sample room temp or chilled? You’ll have to listen in to find out! This week, we’re talking to the 2024 winner of the Road To The Horse. And it’s time for Buy A Horse Book Day! Thanks for tuning in.
Click here to stream Episode 124.
Special guest:
Tik Maynard is a professional horse trainer and one-half of Copperline Equestrian, an Ocala training operation he runs with his five-star eventer wife, Sinead. He 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 also the author of “In The Middle Are The Horsemen,” published by Trafalgar Square Books.
More on what we talked about in this episode:
This week it’s all about slushies. Try this icy lemon-ginger vodka cocktail. | @f+w
Mystik Dan won the Kentucky Derby in an exciting photo finish. We discuss. | @HN
Analysis: More top riders need to set the example and pull up to save their horse. | @COTH
Sending off a fecal sample? Your vet wants you to keep them cold. | @EQUUS
Product Review: Kevin Bacon’s Hoof Care is coming to North America! | @ecogold
Tik Maynard stops by after his incredible finish at The Road To The Horse. | @heelsdown
Friday May 10 was Buy A Horse Book Day. This year, we’re celebrating Marguerite Henry and her impact on horse girls over the generations. | @heelsdown
Mailbag: What are your favorite products for icing legs? Christine asks about the Incrediwear socks. Do you guys have a favorite hack or product you use at home? | @heelsdown
More about our hosts:
Jessica Payne is an international event rider who is rarely seen without her long-haired chihuahua under her arm. She was born in London, Ontario, but grew up in Franklin, Tenn., and graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Animal Science. She’s now a coach, a mom and one-half of Payne Equestrian, a full-service eventing, show jumping and dressage operation based in North Carolina with her Olympian husband, Doug. Jess once lost the tip of her pinky finger clipping her 5* horse, and husband Doug says she can “talk to anyone including a wall….and they will like it!”
Ellie Woznica happily lives on a mountain in northern Pennsylvania in her horses’ front yard. She works from home as a graphic designer, manure mucker, and zoo keeper, but only gets paid for one of those gigs. Ellie grew up showing hunter/jumpers (and still does) but in college she learned to ride western and fell in love with reining and reined cow horse. Outside of horses, Ellie loves to knit, whittle, and write! Her boyfriend says she has too many hobbies.
Justine Griffin is an award winning journalist who has written about everything from horses to high-profile CEOs to her ovaries. (She donated her eggs once.) Two things she loves the most? Whippet puppies and cheese. Justine is a lifelong lover of Thoroughbreds and is a native Floridian.
Many thanks to our sponsors this month: Kinetic Vet and Kevin Bacon’s Hoof Care!