Cambridge Equine Hospital

14/11/2025

Pony Club locations don’t get much better than this! Dr Lucy is on Waiheke Island for the day at her old Pony Club stomping ground for a day of dentals.

WIPC has the most incredible location, with Blackpool beach in the background used for post ride horse swims, Lucy can confirm they are loads of fun! The club members and community have managed an amazing club room rebuild after a devastating fire last year.

Featured here modelling the recently resurfaced area, is Montie, who is thankful for his dental earlier in the day. Montie visited Lucy at the clinic in Cambridge around 1 year ago to remove some injured incisors that were bothering him. Lucy is happy to report the extraction sites have fully healed and look wonderful.

13/11/2025

A gorgeous farm breeding lovely horses.
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06/11/2025

We are incredibly proud to be bringing this project to fruition in conjunction with Waikato Equine Veterinary Centre, as part of the Altano Group. The benefits of having this diagnostic tool available will make a significant impact to the lives of our patients and their owners. Keep watching for further updates on the project!

01/11/2025

Seeing patients go home and do well is one of the best parts of the job. The beautiful green grass and TLC from Carlaw Park should give him that extra boost. Looking forward to seeing what Blitz can do!

The breeding season forever brings rewarding and satisfying results to farms, owners and staff alike. In saying that, there can be times where nature can be a little unforgiving and testing.

This little champion home-bred (Profondo x Bad Habits c**t) - aka 'Blitz' - didn't have a favorable start to life, enduring a string of health setbacks which could have gone either way, making for a tough couple of weeks recovering.

Fortunately, through the world class efforts of Windsor Park Stud and Cambridge Equine Hospital, Blitz was able to fight through adversity and come out the otherside with what now looks like a bright and positive future ahead.

The Carlaw Park team are extremely greatful to have Blitz and Mum back, and as you can see, he is certainly not short in affection and care.

30/10/2025

Introducing Anne, another one of our amazing nursing staff joining us for the season!
Anne has been here since October and is a Dutch veterinary student who recently completed her Bachelor's degree. She decided to take a gap year to gain more hands-on experience, which she says will be very valuable for the rest of her veterinary studies.
Anne has been riding horses since she was 8 years old and even fulfilled a lifelong dream of owning a horse of her own. She also loves nature and travelling, so coming to New Zealand to work with horses felt like the perfect next step!
So far she has already learned a lot at CEH and really enjoys being part of such a supportive team and he is excited to see what the next few months bring!

20/10/2025

Equine asthma. This horse is in the severe asthma category and these rather dramatic signs were brought on when the horse was fed hay. There is a broad continuum of the effects of this disease and at the mildest end is reduced exercise capacity and some mucous in the trachea. This is a common condition in racing and sports horses, and often presents as a cough at the beginning of exercise, or a horse getting tired easily or not performing to expectations. Management is based on environmental modification and anti-inflammatories. This is a situation where inappropriate use of antibiotics is also common, and is not necessary in the vast majority of cases.

15/10/2025

Meet the wonderful Lottie, another nurse that has come from abroad to help for the season!
Lottie has come from the UK to help in the busy foaling season and learn a different side of the equine industry whilst travelling. She’s come from the life of a hunt groom with an equine science BSc degree in her back pocket.
Her favourite parts of the job include working with a variety of people and horses, lameness diagnostics, and nursing intensive foal cases to health.
Outside of work she enjoys actively exploring new places and getting out into nature, on land or water. Better still, with her Labrador George (he’s bred for shooting, but also enjoys a trip on the paddle board!).

14/10/2025

Meet another one of our new faces!!
Rubie is another one of our amazing Vet Nurses joining us for the season.
She is a qualified Rural Animal Veterinary Technician and has previously worked at Macca lodge, before spending last year in Australia working with horses. She grew up on a farm in the deep South in a little town called Lawrence, where her parents breed standardbred race horses.
She has ridden horses since she was a toddler and has competed in rodeos, representing New Zealand in 2019.
Her favourite part of her job is working out in the field, emergency cases, dealing with ICU cases and foals among lots of other things.
When she isn’t working she is busy planning her wedding and exploring the Waikato and surrounding areas.

14/10/2025

Antibiotics are one of the most important treatments in human and veterinary medicine - but they are losing their effectiveness. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) causes over a million deaths per year in humans. We are also seeing bacterial infections with resistance to multiple drugs in horses. The horse also relies heavily on the normal healthy bacteria to function and thrive and antibiotic treatment depletes these protective organisms, allowing only resistant microbes to multiply without competition. Antibiotics are life saving treatments when used appropriately as needed. When used in situations where the horse would recover without them, they are potentially dangerous to your horse and increase the chance of resistant organisms as well as a waste of money. Please don’t be offended if you are questioned by vets about your horse’s needs and if they choose not to prescribe an antibiotic in a situation where it may have been used in the past. We are trying to ensure the continued health and wellbeing of your horses and the human race

12/10/2025

Meet our new seasonal staff!
Briar has joined our nursing team for this busy season. She has come from Hawke's Bay and finished NCEA a year early. Her studies have a focus on equine studies and agriculture, and she's gained a Primary Industries vocational award and was top agricultural student for 2 years running! She starts her level 6 diploma in rural veterinary technology next year with Otago Polytech.
Before starting here, she worked at a weanling training facility in the Hawkes Bay. She's ridden and owned horses most of her life, starting off riding mounted games ponies, and now competes in showing and sidesaddle classes and is a member of the New Zealand Sidesaddle Association. She is currently retraining an OTTB, Billy Peach, to be her next sidesaddle horse.
Her favourite part of the job is being outside and working with a variety of different horses, as well as looking after the intensive care foals and getting to see the amazing progress they make.
Outside of work, she loves getting out sidesaddle, being on the farm, preferably out of service 😆, and looking after her orphaned lamb Baarry.

06/10/2025

Vet Nurse Appreciation Week!!
We are all so appreciative of the amazing team of Vet Nurses we have here! They do an amazing job of keeping the hospital running smoothly and keeping all the Vets under control. Thank You from all of us here at Cambridge Equine Hospital!🤩🤩🤩

29/09/2025

New season means new seasonal staff! We have some new faces here at Cambridge Equine, some who have come from the other side of the world, to join us for this busy season!

Kelsey joined us in September 2025 for the stud season. New to the area, she is looking forward to meeting clients and finding her way around the Waikato region!
Originally from Scotland, she qualified from the University of Surrey in 2022, and holds a degree in Biomedical Science, and a Masters Degree in Veterinary Microbiology.
After graduating she moved to the Cotswolds to work in an equine hospital, dealing with a busy caseload of sports horses, racehorses and stud work, where she gained valuable experience. Her passion for horses and travel previously took her further afield working with Thoroughbred racehorses and sport horses in South Africa.
She enjoys all aspects of equine clinical work, but and has a special interest in sports medicine, reproduction and foal medicine.
Outside of work, she enjoys catching up with friends with a wine in hand, travelling, running with her Flat coated retriever Poppy, wild swimming and visiting her family in Scotland.