Mel Werner Horse Training

Melissa Bergevin Werner

Mel started riding with her mother at the young age of 3 years old. Thanks to her mother she had a good start with Horses. Her mother taught her how to ride and supported her in every aspect of this incredible sport. Mel spent 9 years in 4-H and also competed in Open Shows through her youth. Mel then set out to become a well rounded experienced Trainer, so she started working for many different trainers and instructors to learn their training and teaching techniques.  Working with horses and training them is a real special part of Mel's life. She has taken on some of the most extreme cases to turn them around to the most reliable and well trained horses. She is kind to the horse and works with a positive attitude. And when doing that the resolution is a very well rounded and easy going horse that loves attention and works hard to do a good job!

Work Experience

·         Mel was an assistant trainer at an Arabian horse Farm at the age of 16.

·         Mel has worked with Robert Knight a top U.S. trainer and learned to train Racehorses.

·         Mel worked as an assistant trainer for Western Pleasure Horses at James Bryce Quarter Horses.

·         Mel was the Trainer at Stone Ridge Arabians training Arabians for Class A competitions.

·         Mel was the Breeding manager and trainer at Red Tail Arabians, LLC

·         Mel gave Private and group lessons at Trinity Equestrian Center

·         Mel gives Private and group lessons at West Wind Stables

·         Mel is currently training out of Red Tail Arabians, LLC

·         Mel has been a trainer and Instructor in the Chippewa Valley for over 12 years now.

Show Experience

·         Mel has been showing horses of all breeds and types since 1975.

·         She has shown horses for Stone Ridge Arabians, Red Tail Arabians and many more clients in KY, IN, MI, OH, WI, MN, IA, IL, and SD.

Race Track Experience

·         Mel learned to Groom and Exercise racehorses at The Hawkeye Horse Racing School in 1985 which is a private school. Mel learned how to groom them and gallop them. She has been certified as a Stable Manager & Intermediate Exercise Rider.

·         Mel has worked with Arabians, Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horse racehorses (Canterbury Downs, MN, Wilmington, DE, Micanopy, FL).

·         Mel worked as a groom for Lasma South Arabians grooming Arabian Race horses. She groomed such greats as Flaming Tron Ku and Wiking. (see below picture) Wiking won the Armand Hammer $50,000 stakes that year and was named Arabian Race Horse of the Year.

·         Mel then traveled to Canterbury Downs in Minnesota and worked with Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racehorses.

·         Her next stop was then Florida to work again for Lasma South (Now Town and Country Farms).

·         While Melissa enjoyed grooming the horses her true passion was training show and pleasure horses so she parted ways with life on the track.