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Morphettville Equine Clinic is Adelaide's premier thoroughbred/sporthorse veterinary clinic.

24 hour emergency call out available
we welcome both medical and surgical referrals and out clients travel to see us from all over the state as well as various parts of australia.

22/09/2025

🚨 HOW TO BE PREPARED IN AN EMERGENCY 🚨

We understand it’s very stressful to have an emergency with your horse! Not to mention it’s usually late at night or on the weekend when the dreaded colic or large laceration strikes.

Here are some great tips from our vets to help your horse while waiting for us to get to you:

😌 Try to stay as calm as possible. It’s easier said than done, but science tells us our horses often feel our emotional state and a high stress environment isn’t helpful

🗺️ Our vet or nurse will need to know your location (street address) and any other tips to find you. Any landmarks can be useful but make sure they’re things that can be recognized if the vet is not familiar with the property or it’s dark! If you have an extra person, meeting the vet at the entrance to the property will often help us find you and your horse faster

🐴 Be prepared to describe the problem as best as you can. Our vets and nurses will often ask some triage questions so they can give you advice or decide if any additional equipment is needed. Examples would be the duration of the problem, range of symptoms and anatomical location of any injury

🩹 Remember to keep a stocked first aid kit - essentials include plenty of clean bandaging material, a thermometer and a stethoscope if you’re familiar with using one

Stay tuned for our next post while we give you some tips for what to do while you’re waiting for the vet to reach you!

15/09/2025

Last week Dr Andrew and Dr Ruth from our HorsemedSA Hills Equine Veterinary Clinic made the trip North to chat to the enthusiastic vet and vet tech students who make up the University of Adelaide Equine Special Interest Group.

One of our core values at Horsemed is to support and nurture the next generation of equine vets, and that starts by rubbing shoulders with the students and giving them an insight into the wonderful and challenging career of being a horse vet.

Both our vets delivered talks honed by years of experience, focusing on real life tips and knowledge in the fields of emergency and reproductive medicine.

The students were fantastic, show casing their knowledge and enthusiasm and asking some well thought out questions.

Thank you to the Equine SIG for hosting us again, we love these evenings and look forward to them every year. It’s a privilege to see the future of the profession!

10/09/2025

It’s time to warm up those arms, charge up those scanners and defrost those little swimmers! Yes that’s right it’s breeding season time!

We’re very lucky to have our wonderful team of repro vets who achieve outstanding pregnancy rates every year. We treat every mare as an individual and love those tricky challenging mares too!

Thinking of breeding your mare? Contact us to discuss our options. Prefer to pay per scan? No problem! Prefer the security of an up front package? No worries (they’re great value!).

And don’t forget to organise the shipping of that frozen semen if you’re leaning that way this year! We offer year round secure storage in our tanks.

Stay tuned to our social media for updates as the season progresses.

Contact our HorsemedSA Hills Equine Veterinary Clinic on 08 8391 9400 if you would like to make a booking - or send us a message on social media!

09/09/2025

Our surgical theatre is always busy with a huge range of cases - from routine arthroscopies to colic surgeries - our surgeons and anaesthetists are on the go!

Here’s an interesting case from Dr Booth’s archives.

Subchondral cystic lesions are reasonably common in horses (often referred to as bone cysts). The stifle, fetlock and pastern joints are the most often affected. Some horses can show significant lameness, whilst others are very sound and the lesions are found later in life!

This horse has a pastern cyst which was causing significant lameness.

These images show Dr Booth placing a screw across the cyst to stimulate and aid in healing. Careful radiographic planning is required, and the screw is placed very precisely using X-ray guidance. Post op X-rays confirm perfect placement (of course!)!

This horse went on to have a very successful athletic career - a wonderful result!

04/09/2025

It’s show week!

Here at Horsemed SA, we love the Royal Adelaide Show. We have a long and proud association with the show, and we always look forward to providing veterinary services to the horses and ponies on site.

We have a vet on hand every day of the show, and whilst we’re pleased to say it’s generally smooth sailing, there’s always a few tricky cases to work through. Our vets have to be on their toes, using their experience to treat the top level horses, often juggling medication rules and a wide variety of issues to ensure the best outcomes for the horses and our clients.

We’re also always so happy to see so many of our wonderful patients and clients reaping the rewards of all their hard work. Congratulations to all and thanks for always stopping to say hi!

Vets at show this year include Dr Jacqui, Dr Bridgette, Dr Ruth, Dr Kyra, Dr Holly and Dr Andrew. Don’t forget to say hello if you bump into them!

13/08/2025

Exciting news! We now have sucralox available in a smaller 3.6kg bucket!

Sucralox is an amazing digestive health product backed up with solid scientific evidence. It makes a huge difference to so many horses!

We’re excited to have this smaller bucket so owners can make sure their horse eats it prior to committing to a 10kg bucket. And at only $159.95, they’re running off the shelves!

Drop into Morphettville to grab your bucket!

01/08/2025

🎉🐴 Happy Birthday to all our beautiful horses! 🐴🎉
It’s officially August 1st, and we couldn’t let the day go by without celebrating in true equine hospital style – with carrot cakes, candles, and lots of cuddles! 🥕🎂💕

Our amazing team here at Morphettville Equine Clinic made sure our patients felt extra special today. Whether they’re 1 or 21, every horse deserves to be spoilt on their big day!

Swipe through to see some of the birthday fun! 🎈

31/07/2025

🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Bridgette Young! 🎉

We are beyond proud to share that our very own Dr. Bridgette is now a member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists (Medicine of Horses) (MANZCVS) - this post graduate qualification is only achieved by a small number of vets through dedicated study, an intense special interest in a subject and passing a series of testing examinations.

She is also the proud recipient of the Equine Chapter Scone Equine Hospital Membership prize for outstanding performance in membership examinations 2025.

This incredible achievement recognises her dedication, expertise, and commitment to advancing veterinary knowledge and care. We’re so lucky to have such a passionate and skilled vet on our team!

This incredible milestone reflects not only her hard work and dedication, but also the compassion and care she shows to every patient and pet parent.
Please join us in celebrating this massive milestone – if you see Dr. Bridgette in the clinic, be sure to give her a big congratulations! 💙

11/07/2025

🚘 🚛 🐴 Travel sickness - what exactly is this life threatening condition and what can owners do to reduce its occurrence? 🚘 🚛🐴

🚛 Travel sickness is a severe pneumonia known as pleuropneumonia. It is an infectious respiratory disease, affecting both the lungs and the surrounding tissue. Horses often require intensive treatment in a hospital to save their lives, and can develop multiple secondary complications such as pleural fibrosis, laminitis and colitis.

🚘 Horses are designed to spend a large portion of their day with their head down. However, when horses spend large periods of time with their head elevated, bacteria, feed material and secretions are not expelled like normal and settle in the lungs, causing infection. In addition, horses who are stressed or otherwise unwell are at higher risk.
🚛 If you have recently travelled your horse, you should be looking out for: lethargy, not wanting to eat, an increased respiratory rate, a “snotty” nose, cough and elevated temperature (>38oC) . If you’re at all concerned about your horse in the hours and days following transport, it is important to contact a veterinarian IMMEDIATELY.

🚘 Awareness of travel sickness is probably the most important thing you can do to help your horse. Unfortunately, research has indicated that antibiotics prior to travelling, and short periods of allowing the head down (eg a short stop to graze for a few minutes) are not effective in preventing development of the disease. However, any effort to reduce stress is beneficial and travelling breaks can assist with this. As a rule, there should be at least 1-2 hours’ rest for after every 3-4 hours travelled and avoid travelling >8 hours per day. Feed and water must be provided on the ground during this time. Avoiding strenuous exercise immediately before or after travelling is recommended. You should monitor your horse’s re**al temperature twice daily for the days following travelling.

09/07/2025

❄️Wonderful Winter Specials!❄️

Morphettville Equine Clinic is offering some excellent specials to help you take care of your horse’s health at this time of year!

From now until the end of August, wo are offering:
🐴Gastroscope special: $180 including sedation (valued at $267.50)
🐴Dental special: $180 for initial/overdue; $150 for routine/annual (valued at $207.18 and $177.58)
🐴Laminitis x-ray special: $250- 4 views of the front feet plus a consultation. Excluding additional tests or medications (Valued at $446.79) NB please note this is a laminitis screening and not a complete lamenessess examination.
🚙FREE F***l egg count with any gastroscope or dental! (Valued at $35.20)
🚙*FREE travel to Northern Adelaide on Wednesdays and to the Onkaparinga Hills region on Tuesdays.

*Conditions apply, subject to availability.

Call now to book and take advantage of these excellent specials for your horse.
Spaces won’t last!
☎️Moprhettville Equine Clinic 8294 8900

03/07/2025

VALE Elmo
It is with great sadness that we farewell this wonderful horse at 33 yrs of age. Owned and loved by my sister Laura . He didn't go to the Olympics but he did give Laura the love of riding again. He also helped many of our students from around the world to learn and compete in both Dressage and Jumping. Laura repaid him with extraordinary care.

We are sincerely grateful to the Morphettville Equine Clinic who treated him throughout his life and went beyond expectations to help him and Laura at the end of his life. Also thanks to Champions Horse Transport for their help.
Thank you Elmo for being a wonderful horse you will always have a place in our hearts 💕

10/06/2025

Earlier this month, Dr Bridgette Young jetted off to Sydney for a fantastic workshop about pre purchase examinations.

The workshop was held by the Equine Veterinarians Australia’s esteemed Dr Nathan Anthony and Dr Kirsten Neil. It encompassed all aspect of a PPE from nose to tail, including common findings and, most importantly, how to interpret them in the context of sale.

A pre-purchase examination, or PPE, may sound like a very simple procedure; however, it is far from that! A PPE is a special kind of assessment of a horse for sale on behalf of a purchaser. It takes a great deal of skill, knowledge and experience to be able to perform a PPE, interpret and findings and help buyers make decisions.

Dr Bridgette is very excited to take what she has learned, in combination with her extensive experience as an equine veterinarian, and provide this service to those looking for their next unicorn!

If you are interested in having a pre-purchase examination on a horse you are interested in, please contact the clinic on:

Horsemed SA Morphettville: 08 8294 8900
HorsemedSA Hills Equine Veterinary Clinic: 08 8391 9400

Address

90 Morphett Road, Glengowrie
Adelaide, SA
5044

Telephone

+61882948900

Website

http://www.horsemedsa.com/

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