Whoops, he did it again … Canadian horseman Tik Maynard has won the 2025 Road to the Horse, the world championship for starting young horses. This is Maynard’s second victory, having been crowned champion in 2024. Maynard bested three other competitors in the final on Goodluck Suncat, the unbacked Quarter Horse he chose for the competition. For his hard work, Maynard won a Circle Y saddle, western belt buckle and $75,000 USD ($105,000 CDN).
Maynard, a CCI4* eventer and short-listed rider for the Canadian Three-Day Event Team, runs Copperline Equestrian out of Ocala, Florida.
“It’s such a surreal moment in someone’s life, I spent over three hours in a sequestered room where I can’t see what’s going on, I don’t know what’s happening or what other people are doing, and I’m too nervous to read or to eat or to drink,” Maynard explains backstage after his stunning second victory. “And then you get out there and I really just tried to come back to myself and do what the horse tells me to do.”