Angie Wicks
John’s wife, Angie Wicks is an integral part of the Training Centre and like John she began riding at an early age and her varied experience and expertise, coupled with a University degree, make her the perfect partner both in the arena and in the office.
Angie’s Story:
Angie Wicks has had a strong passion and love for horses since she was a young child. She spent her childhood riding before and after school and most weekends. She got regular riding lessons and attended Pony Club as a child. As a teenager she also competing in Hacking and Dressage. After finishing school in the late nineties Angie was intrigued by the psychology of horses so she gave up competition riding for a few years and started to study natural horsemanship training techniques. After graduating from university with a Bachelor of Education she wanted to further her horsemanship knowledge and skills so she spent a year living with Mel Fleming and Steve Byrne in Tamworth.
Angie has now handled and taught hundreds of different horses on the ground. Angie can create a strong connection and partnership with individual horses in a very short time frame. Angie has comprehensive knowledge of problem solving, young horse handling, understanding horse behaviour, breaking in under saddle and high level liberty training. Her skills have been refined and developed to a high level over the past 17 years and they are applied to all the horses that are Broken In/Started Under Saddle at John Wicks Training Stables. She is very passionate about teaching people basic to advanced ground work skills. Angie also teaches both English and Western riding.
Angie is currently competing in Reining but has also trained and ridden at FEI level Dressage on her beautiful big warmblood.
John and Angie are a great team and constantly support and push each other to explore new concepts and techniques in all aspects of Horsemanship and Competition.
“You never stop learning, you learn a lot from other people, every discipline and every horse you deal with. We are very fortunate to do what we love for a living. We hope to meet you and your horse sometime in the future!”
