Central Equine Vets

04/07/2025

Huge congratulations to Brand Ambassador Imogen Casely on being selected to represent Scotland at the Youth Home Nations for the fourth year running!

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🏆 Congratulations to the combinations selected to represent Scotland at the Youth Home Nations, 1-3 August 2025 at Vale View Equestrian, Melton Mowbray 🏆

Congratulations also to our non-travelling reserve. The selection scores were extremely close and competitive for this event.

💙 A huge well done to our riders – it is a massive achievement to be selected for teams! We are all behind you and wish you the very best of luck! 💙

28/06/2025

HELP US NAME OUR HAIRY HAGGIS RELAY TEAM!
We are very excited to have entered a Central Equine Vets team to run the Edinburgh Marathon Festival 2026 Hairy Haggis Relay!

But we need a team name! Help us find a great name by posting your suggestions below in the comments. 👇👇👇

We’ll be choosing the best name on Monday!

We will be raising money for Scottish SPCA and our runners are Malcolm Corsar, Practice Partner, Matt Hanks Practice Partner, Gemma Williamson
Practice Manager and Gemma Sellar Brand Ambassador!

25/06/2025

💓Do you know how to check your horse's Digital Pulse?

👉This is another way of checking a horse's heart rate (or pulse rate) and is one you can do if you're worried about laminitis:

- Run your hand down your horse's leg to its fetlock (the round joint that sits above the hoof).

- Place your forefinger or forefinger and middle finger on the outside OR inside of the fetlock just above the widest point of the joint, where it starts to circle round to the back, where a big artery runs down to the foot.

- NB: Don't use your thumb, as you may get a false reading with your own pulse!

- Press your finger(s) on the area (not too hard), count to 3 and wait to feel the slow pulse - it will feel like a soft wriggle passing under your finger(s). It might take a while to feel it. You can move your finger(s) a few millimetres horizontally forwards or backwards to locate the pulse.

- You won't feel the 'lub-dub' rhythm that you get when listening to the heart, but will get a soft push as it pulses under your fingers.

- You should be able to feel a pulse on every horse, although this can be quite tricky on horses with lots of feathers.

- If what you're feeling is STRONG, BOUNDING or THUMPING under your fingers, then this may be a sign that your horse has some inflamation in the foot.

- Remember: a strong, bounding digital pulse can also be associated with foot abscesses, lameness, thrush, bruising, poor feet and other foot-related issues and will usually be present in the foot that is inflamed.

👉TOP TIPS:
- Usually with laminitis, a strong, bounding pulse can be felt in both front feet.

- A horse's heart rate is less than half (30-35 beats per minute ['bpm']) of a human's heart rate (60-100bpm), so don't expect to feel a fast pulse when checking the digital pulse.

- Get used to checking your horse's digital pulse regularly, so you have a benchmark of what is 'normal' for them.

- If in doubt, always get the vet out.

24/06/2025

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to veterinary surgeon Rebecca Davies!

Always smiling and a fabulous vet, Rebecca joined the Practice in 2021 and is a(nother!) favourite with our clients and their horses. She’s also a rather talented Ginger Bread House maker and decorator!

23/06/2025

As the Summer season brings more people to the countryside to enjoy dog walks, fresh air and family time, we are seeing more and more horses that have had to receive emergency veterinary treatment due to being fed items by passers by. Please watch this video by The British Horse Society and share it far and wide, to help emphasise the importance of not feeding other people’s horses.

The British Horse Society are urging members of the public to not feed horses without the owner’s permission. Although frequently motivated by kindness, feed...

20/06/2025

Congratulations to Brodie Beveridge riding bay mare Millburren Star who won the Central Equine Vets sponsored Working Hunter Horse Qualifier yesterday at the Royal Highland Show!

Practice Partner Matt Hanks was there to congratulate Brodie on her fantastic win.

19/06/2025

We’re sponsoring the Working Hunter Horse Horse of the Year Show Qualifier today at the - good luck to all the competitors!

16/06/2025

CONGRATULATIONS to Alan Thomson and ‘Greenhall Dictator’.
(aka Freddie) on achieving Hunter Champion and Supreme Horse at Saturday’s where we were sponsors of the Light Horse Section.