Meet the Team

Started Denali Equine with the goal of helping equine athletes reach their full potential. She wanted a facility to cultivate a team approach where every case is surrounded by all the specialized professionals they need to be diagnosed, healed then maintained in their athletic career. Upon graduating from Virginia-Maryland Regional college of veterinary medicine she took an internship with a sports medicine exclusive practice. There she got the amazing opportunity to work with some of the nation’s top quarter horses. This experience helped her hone an eye for movement patterns.

After opening Denali, she knew we needed to do better at early injury diagnosis to prevent the chronic lameness and career ending injuries many horses were sustaining. There were a few cases, including one of her own horses that she didn’t feel like we had solved the whole puzzle.  With the help of collaboration with Dr. Audrey DeClue quickly learned that there needed to be a shift from focusing primarily on limb lameness to body soundness as a whole. That ‘conventional’ equine sports medicine was not giving enough answers for too many horses. This shift has allowed her to focus on conditions that go undiagnosed/untreated, focus on the small details of body injuries and compensation patterns which allows for the prevention of chronic limb conditions. Her goal is to always listen to, work with and recruit the owners and all equine professionals on a team approach to solve the unsolvable.

Dr. Workman is passionate about work life balance and enjoys spending time with her husband, Mike, and children, Cinch, Colt, Cheyenne and Cai. Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16:3

Welcome Dr. Gabby to the Denali Equine family!

Originally from Montreal, Canada, Dr. Gabby has had a lifelong passion for horses, starting her riding journey at just 7 years old and realizing her dream of horse ownership at 21.

After studying under the sun at Ross University in St. Kitts and earning her degree at the University of Montreal, she honed her skills through a surgical/ambulatory internship at Vermont Large Animal Clinic. Dr. Gabby then gained valuable experience in Quebec City before heading to North Carolina, where she worked at 3H Equine Hospital and became certified in Animal Chiropractic.

In July 2022, she embraced the warmth of Florida, joining Sarasota Equine Veterinary Services, but North Carolina always felt like home.

With a keen interest in alternative therapies, sports medicine, wound care, and minor surgeries, Dr. Gabby is excited to bring her expertise to Denali Equine.

When she’s not caring for horses, you can find her trail riding with her OTTB Azalea and enjoying adventures with her dogs, Leon and Goose.

Join us in welcoming Dr. Gabby to our team!

Dr. Ann Wimmer is currently on a leave of absence and will not be seeing clients for the foreseeable future. We will be sure to announce their return when they are able to resume seeing clients.

Dr. Wimmer graduated from UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and started her career as a general practitioner. She earned her acupuncture and spinal manipulation (aka chiropractic) certifications while still in general practice, and then in 2017 opened her own complementary medicine practice. She joins Denali Equine now in order to add her skills with acupuncture, spinal manipulation, light therapy, and general medicine to the rehabilitation of all classes of horses.

She has worked on horses of all ages, from 3 week-old foals to 39 year-old seniors, on horses of all disciplines, and on horses of every competitive level from elite athletes to backyard ponies and retired horses.

For every horse she sees, she aims to answer this question: What does this horse need from us to be happy, healthy, comfortable in its body, and able to do its job?

To that end she aims for a whole horse assessment that involves the horse, the owner, and all the equine professionals who play a part. She believes in open lines of communication and collaboration toward a common goal of improving the lives and careers of all horses.

Juli is our Direction of Rehabilitation and head physical therapist. Juli is an integral part of the program bringing her years of equine facility management, riding and training knowledge, in a variety of disciplines, and management of upper-level event horses. Her work at Denali Equine is dedicated to being diligent in every detail of the horse’s needs in order to help them recover and compete at their highest ability.

She loves investing in the small details and time requirements that often go overlooked. As the rehab manager she coordinates and schedules, all the rehab or fitness clients’ needs. Additionally provides professional physical therapy exercises, ground work, stretching, k-tape, laser treatments, and riding needed for our cases.  Juli’s is the center point for many of our divisions at Denali, bringing all the pieces together of our business, idea bouncer, and problem solver.

Denali Equine’s head of the podiatry is Mike Workman, CJF. Mike received his bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech. With the original goal of attending veterinary school, Mike went to farrier school to help him in his future veterinary career. While in farrier school he fell in love with the craft and decided to stay with it as a profession.

Mike is actively enrolled in his education to ensure he can provide the best therapeutic farrier work to his clients. He enjoys working with veterinarians and other farriers on complicated cases and is comfortable in all handmade custom shoes as well as modern synthetics.

Biagio, born in Brooklyn NY and raised in Santiago, Chile. Chile is where the passion for horses began through his mom’s family. Biagio was a professional endurance horse trainer and FEI 3* rider prior to attending farrier school.

For Biagio it started at his grandparents’ mini zoo with a Shetland pony. When he was seven years old he started breaking ponies and giving pony rides to the kids that came to visit in the summer.

At nine years old he began to ride his uncle’s endurance horses and soon after his first official 25 mile race. By the age of nineteen, he began to train endurance horses full time, becoming a 100 mile rider and Chilean National Champion. After a few years he noticed the need for better hoof care so moved to Kentucky to expand his education and attend the Kentucky HorseShoeing School.

After horseshoeing school Biagio apprenticed with Alan Dryg Cjf Awcf Asf, in Crete, Illinois where he started his farrier certification and was introduced to the competition side through the World Championship Blacksmith Association. In 2022, he joined the Denali team to become an apprentice under Mike Workman CJF. He quickly finished his certified farrier exam through the American Farriers Association and is now starting the journey to the next level examination, the Certified Journeyman Farrier.