Dr Melanie Quick
Horse Health / Care
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.
Visit Dr Melanie Quick at the following sessions
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Thursday November 14th
4:00 pm to 4:45 pm
Stallion Rail Demo Arena, OTT Pavilion
Pain Free Horse: Identify & Resolve problems
Pain free horse: How to identify and resolve problems with the working horse.
Tips for early identification of pain which cause behavioural and performance issues under saddle. Common problems working horses have, and simple preventative solutions will be discussed. The topic will go from head to tail and foot to spine.
An update on an under-recognised cause of lameness in Victoria (which applies to all of Australia).
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Friday November 15th
11:15 am to 12:00 pm
Village Green
Training difficult & Young Horses
A demonstration on how to stop horses resisting during work, how to make them light, harmonious, safe and enjoyable to ride for all ages of horse and rider.
How to teach an old or young horse to relax, and become more responsive and safer to ride.
The demonstration will include methods for ex racehorses, and any horse who has problems with stiffness, rushing, laziness, jamming, bucking, bolting, spooking, and rearing, in addition to how to teach them to be more polite with their ground manners.
