Gloucestershire Equine Vets

01/04/2025

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01/04/2025

GLOUCESTERSHIRE EQUINE VETS TC WIN AGAIN 🥇🥇🥇🥇
We competed at our first Intermediate Team Chase of the season and we won. A great lead from Victoria Gregg (Plum) on Yvonne Goss’s Charlie, closely followed all the way by Caroline Taylor on Bumpy with Mark riding in 3rd on Lucky. Unfortunately Amber Jackson-Fennell parted company early on in the course. We kept up a high tempo the whole way round the undulating Fernie course with some great hedges but a few technical bits too.
We are really looking forward to the Bicester next Sunday where we will be in the Intermediate Speed again. Thank you so much to our fantastic supporters and of course these talented horses.

29/03/2025

Shout out to Gloucestershire Equine Vets for supporting us! 🙌💙
Picture of sponsored rider Gregg Equestrian Coaching clearing the corner in great style 🏇

28/03/2025

We are now just 2 days away from our first intermediate team chase run of the season at the Fernie Team Chase on Sunday. Our own horse Lucky had his last gallop this morning and is feeling great. Attached below is another video clip of the Novice Speed victory last Sunday at the Beaufort Team Chase.✈️✈️✈️🍾🍾🍾

26/03/2025

✈️ 🌍International Equine Travel 🌍 ✈️

Here at Gloucestershire Equine Vets, both Mark and Mary hold additional Official Veterinarian (OV) qualifications, allowing them to export horses to Ireland, Europe and the rest of the world.

From pre-export testing to completion and signing off of health papers, we provide a full and experienced service when it comes to equine exports, helping reduce the stress of travel for both horse and owner!

We also work closely with well established equine transport services, meaning we stay up-to-date on the latest changes to health certification requirements and ensuring top level compliance with travel legislation and equine welfare.

If you are planning to export your horse, whether than be for competition or a permanent move, please contact our office on 01452 877595 to discuss your requirements. We can cater for both private clients as well as exports for export companies or larger scale equine businesses.

24/03/2025

Video clips of the WINNING Gloucester Equine Vets team at the Beaufort Team Chase

23/03/2025

Absolutely fantastic start to the team chase season for the Gloucestershire Equine Vets team winning the Novice Speed Class at the Beaufort Team Chase. Brilliantly ridden by Victoria Gregg, Fred White, Graham Mugleston and Annabel Mains. Thank you so much to Yvonne Goss for organising the team. We are still unbeaten in Novice Speed classes, with previous wins in the autumn at the Warwickshire and the Kimblewick!!!! 🎉🍾🍾🥇🥇🥇. Next week the Fernie Intermediate Speed. Well done guys 👏👏👏(videos to follow)

22/03/2025

We are really excited to start the spring Team Chasing season tomorrow at the Beaufort Team Chase. We have a team running in the Novice Speed Class running at 1218. We had an exceptional autumn season as our first time out as a team. Good luck tomorrow guys we will be cheering you on. (Mark is saving Lucky to run at the Fernie Team Chase in the Intermediate Speed Class next week). Go team go!!!! 🎉✈️🎉✈️

18/03/2025

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18/03/2025

After a very busy day and night yesterday we had a quick successful trip this morning to Prestige Equestrian British Showjumping with Sarah’s Joes Clover. He won the 90cm Open and was pipped into 2nd in the Discovery by our sponsored rider Victoria Gregg. We will beat her one day 🙈🙈🙈

18/03/2025

**Part time yard staff wanted**
We are looking for part time yard staff to join our team.
Riding not necessary but available
Must be Reliable and able to take sole charge of the yard.
Experience with fit young horses essential
Flexible hours
Good rates of pay
Weekend work also available with the opportunity to come racing.

Please email [email protected] or message 07398728907

16/03/2025

Shout out to Gloucestershire Equine Vets one of our valued sponsors 💙🫶🙌
Victoria Gregg Equestrian Coaching their sponsored rider on board clearing the corner in fine style 🏇

14/03/2025

Glad to be sponsoring this lovely event again this year

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11/03/2025

THE WORMS STRIKE BACK!!!!!
This spring we have seen an increasing occurrence of high worm egg counts indicating significant parasite burdens. There are a number of possible causes for this including increasing resistance to current anthelmintics (wormers) climate effects and pasture management.
High worm burdens as indicated by high worm egg counts increase the risk of the following:
Colic
Weight loss / Poor condition
Diarrhoea
Poor performance
Death

We recommend ALL horses and ponies should have their status checked with a worm egg count to come up with an adequate management plan. Worm counts will vary between horses sharing the same grazing so it is important to test them all.
You can drop faeces samples in to the office for testing but please label them with your surname and the horse’s/pony’s name

07/03/2025

Last summer we had a call from a very distressed owner regarding her ROR show horse who had got free whilst being groomed for Royal Three Counties Show and had a nasty wound on the front of his cannon. The wound exposed the surface of his cannon bone and the edge of the extensor tendon. We all thought, although treatable, the subsequent scarring may mean the end of his show career. As can be seen below, Mark thoroughly cleaned the wound and closed the large defect as carefully as possible. Although the tip of the skin flap did break down a little bit, this granulated and then contracted well. The owner bandaged the limb very carefully and for a prolonged period that helped to result in the great cosmetic appearance of the limb that is shown in the last picture. We really can’t wait to see this chap out showing again this year. 🐴🐴🐴🍾🍾🍾

02/03/2025

We have had a busy week last week both competing and supporting our local events. Last Tuesday in the evening we tried our hand at dressage with Lucky, coming away with a 5th in the Prelim 2 at Evenlode Riding Club evening dressage. It was fantastic to see so many friends and clients out competing and doing wonderfully well. Yesterday we were on duty providing veterinary cover at the Cotswold Hunt Scurry - thankfully not too busy. Following the scurry, with only a few weeks until the team chase season starts, we gave Lucky a pop round some of the fences to warm him up.

25/02/2025

💥Introducing the Gloucestershire Equine Vets newsletter💥

As of February 2025 Gloucestershire Equine Vets have a newsletter that will be posted on our website monthly.

Click on the link to be directed to the news page in our website for a good read!

A taster of topics covered in our February issue include:

🐴Dental and vaccine deals
🐴FEI vaccination updates
🐴A vet ‘day in the life’
🐴Diarrhoea in adult horses
🐴Castration need to knows….

12/02/2025