Equine Lameness Veterinarian and Equine Spinal Manipulative Therapist
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This interview was previously published in 2018 Dr Melanie Quick (381)
About Melanie
– Dr Melanie Quick has had a 44 year riding career. She has been obsessed with achieving the highest possible standard of training and health for her own horses, so has spent her entire life since early childhood devoted to learning as much as possible about the training and health of horses.
She has had Olympic trainers since the age of 5, Ms Ruth Emery (trained by Franz Maringer), then Mr Warrick Cozens (Alois Podhajsky’s only private pupil). She competed extensively in jumping, eventing and dressage at state championship level as a young rider and also trained her first horse to Grand Prix dressage level by the age of 17. The next horse she bred, broke in and trained to Grand Prix level work by the age of 30. In addition, she has spent the last decade training with legendary problem horse trainer John Chatterton. Aside from her own horses, she has also been starting young horses, and retraining horses with major behavioural issues for 34 years.
Professionally she has spent 23 years as an equine lameness veterinarian, 25 years shoeing and trimming, 14 years as an equine spinal manipulative therapist. Due to the frustration of having Grand Prix and jumping horses ending up with joint/hoof disease, she has devoted 14 years of private research into the equine hoof – focussing on laminitis, navicular syndrome, joint diseases (eg. ringbone) and also suspensory injuries.
Dr Quick always believed if she could figure out how to improve the health and resilience of the TB racehorse, this knowledge could be transferred over to sport horses, so she has also spent the last 14 years specifically researching how to improve the resilience and durability of the thoroughbred racehorse, to prevent and recover from injuries. Very exciting discoveries have happened in the past few years with her racing thoroughbreds. She hopes after all these years of work, to soon start publishing the results of her discoveries into the feet, body and mind of the equine athlete.
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Melanie’s Favourite Inspirational Quote
– If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again
Who Has Inspired Melanie
– Ms Ruth Emery (trained by Franz Maringer),
– Mr Warrick Cozens (Alois Podhajsky’s only private pupil)
Recommended Books/Authors
– ‘The Complete Training of Horse and Rider’ by Alois Podhajsky
– ‘The Riding Teacher’ by Alois Podhajsky
– ‘My Horses My Teachers’ by Alois Podhajsky
– John Chatterton
About This Episode
-Melanie discusses why it is important for horses to walk barefoot and to be patient, be kind, be thoughtful and always think about what I would do if I was in the horses shoes.
Time Stamps
02:05 – If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again
02:45 – You never stop learning
03:05 – Riding before Melanie could walk
03:49 – Wanted be a horse vet and go to the Olympics
04:10 – Patience, a desire for self improvement and be open minded.
05:15 – People need to keep an open mind especially when you are an elite rider
07:12 – How being a Vet complimented Melanie’s riding
09:28 – Every horse has helped Melanie but the horse she took to Grand Prix that broke down
14:45 – How to stop lameness, don’t be afraid of the barefoot work
17:10 – The challenge of barefoot
20:08 – Melanie always seems to be solving different things
21:03 – Looking for pain in thoroughbreds and doing barefoot research
23:20 – Re-break in ex-racehorses
25:06 – Equine Spinal Therapist, the relationship between barefoot and the spine
26:40 – Young vets need to be open minded
28:15 – Podhajsky books and John Chatterton Book ’10 Steps’
29:45 – Training tip – have patience and spend time with your horse
33:38 – Melanie is writing a book about the magic you can achieve with bare feet
38:19 – Ride more and get book published
38:55 – Be patient, be kind, be thoughtful and always think if I was in the horses shoes
39:40 – Contact: see details below
Melanie’s Contact Details
Phone: 0417 010 519 or +61 417 010 519
Email:
Website: www.theproblemhorse.com
Facebook: The Problem Horse Dr Melanie Quick
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