Dr Melanie Quick
Horse health / Care / Training
Dr Melanie Quick is a profoundly experienced horsewoman and equine veterinarian, with 49 years of riding, training and breaking experience, predominantly with problem horses. Dr Quick’s impressive biography includes 29 years as a lameness vet, 28 years as a farrier, 20 years as an equine spinal therapist, and 19 years devoted to researching the equine hoof. Consequently she has developed practical and achievable solutions to chronic lameness, spine and behavioural problems.
Since Dr Quick was 5 years old she had the rare privilege of being trained by two instructors whose teachers were both from the Spanish Riding School (Franz Maringer & Alois Podhajsky). This enabled her to become a highly successful competitor in multiple state eventing and dressage championships, as well as training two horses to Grand Prix level dressage.
She is currently combining her classical training with John Chatterton’s horsemanship to improve the foundation training and communication for all performance horses. This training means less pressure is required to achieve work at any level. The results thus far have been very exciting, and she has helped many horses return to calm, safe and enjoyable work.
Due to the frustration of witnessing highly successful horses break down with presumably age or sport related inevitable lameness, Dr Quick’s veterinary career became focused on identifying why performance horses tend to develop so many hoof, leg and back problems. This research enables Dr Quick to identify why the injuries develop, thus allowing her to resurrect the once lost careers of these horses and defying all modern veterinary prognoses.
As a result of a lifetime of devotion to the equine athlete from both a health and training perspective, Dr Quick’s mission now is to share this knowledge with the world, so all horses can have a better quality of life with less pain and stress.
