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Newcastle Equine Centre

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Newcastle Equine Centre

Equine Veterinary Hospital The Newcastle Equine Centre is a fully equipped veterinary hospital and surgery for all types of horses.

Housed in “The Old Tote Building”, it surrounds Broadmeadow Racecourse in Newcastle NSW. We provide a team of experienced equine veterinary practitioners and can cater for specialist services. We offer a full range of diagnostic options for medical and surgical cases including radiography, ultrasonography and video endoscopy. The centre is equiped to perform a full range of elective soft tissue and orthopaedic surgeries as well as emergency surgical procedures around the clock.

27/11/2025

A vaccination program is essential for your foal to provide protection for severe and potentially fatal diseases! 🐴💙🩺

While vaccinations can be administered at any age, vaccinating your foal too early will not be successful in mounting an immune response because the mare’s antibodies will interfere. It is therefore recommended to start a vaccination protocol from 12 weeks of age.

10/11/2025

Emergencies only this Wednesday! 🐴💙🩺
*Existing appointments will go ahead as planned

13/10/2025

We are seeking an enthusiastic Animal Attendant / Stablehand to join our exclusively equine practice in the heart of beautiful Newcastle, NSW.

All applicants MUST have horse handling experience as well as the ability to work hard with maturity and take on responsibilities within the scope of the job. Applicants must be prepared and enthusiastic to provide the highest possible standard of care to our patients within a busy equine hospital.

Duties include:
Cleaning out boxes, feeding and watering of horses, grooming, holding horses for vets and nurses when required and keeping a very high standard of cleanliness and upkeep of the stables, feed room and hospital areas.

The hours are 2pm-6pm, Monday-Friday.

If you are interested, please email your resume to
[email protected]

10/10/2025

Happy Vet Nurse Appreciation day to our wonderful team of equine nurses! They are the best! Thank you to all of our nurses for the hard work in providing high quality care to our patients at all hours of the day and night! We could not function without you! 🐴💙🩺

08/10/2025

Meet our new Equine Surgeon, Tom 🐴💙🩺

Tom grew up in Sydney and completed his Bachelor's of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience at the University of Sydney with honours in 2010. He then attended vet school and graduated from the University of Melbourne's inaugural DVM class in 2014. He started his career in mixed practice in Gippsland, where he treated all creatures great and small.

After 2.5 years, Tom decided to focus his work on equine practice. This coincided with a move to the UK, which lasted for 5 years. While in the UK, Tom completed a 2-year internship at Rossdales Equine Hospital in Newmarket and subsequently worked for their ambulatory practice in Hertfordshire. He also completed a certificate in equine orthopaedic surgery through the University of Liverpool.

Tom then moved to Perth to begin his surgical specialisation training (residency) at Murdoch University under Dr David Murphy, an old vet school friend of Paddy's by coincidence! After completing his 3-year residency, Tom moved to Newcastle Equine Centre and is enjoying life back in New South Wales after being away for 15 years.

Tom's clinical interests are orthopaedic surgery, colic surgery, using higher order imaging (MRI and CT) and orthopaedic investigations in performance horses (racing and all sport horse disciplines). Outside of work, Tom can be found skiing, hiking, camping, cooking and playing most sports with his wife Tash and baby Hamish.

30/09/2025

Emergencies only in hospital this long weekend 🐴💙🩺

10/09/2025

Colic, wound, choke?
Call a vet for advice, organise a call out or bring into hospital for assessment sooner rather than later. Early intervention and treatment is always better than seeing how it goes, for your horse’s welfare and medical costs.
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03/09/2025

Patient: Grace 🐴💙🩺

Grace sustained a large laceration in the paddock. She ran into the handle of a gate which ripped open her side. Thankfully, the injury was promptly noticed by her lovely owners. Newcastle Equine Centre ambulatory team responded immediately. The wound was assessed, clamped and debrided. Grace was the best patient. She stood calmly as the team repaired her side. Over the next few weeks her recovery progressed smoothly. Her owners kept the team up to date with her progress with weekly photos. The wound closed beautifully leaving only a faint scar as a reminder of her resilience . Grace is back to full activity, healthy and happy. This shows that even scary looking wounds can heal!

29/08/2025

Call a vet if your foal... 🐴💙🩺

28/08/2025

Patient Hanna: Back at home! 🐴💙🩺

Hanna is now back in with her herd, running amok and acting like her cheeky self! We want to thank the initial treating vet and the owners for their dedication and resilience for allowing us to treat Hanna and help play a role in bringing her back to full health!

$Patient: Hanna - Did you guess the diagnosis?🐴💙🩺For those of you who diagnosed a slab fracture of the 3rd carpal bone yo...$

27/08/2025

Patient: Hanna - Did you guess the diagnosis?🐴💙🩺

For those of you who diagnosed a slab fracture of the 3rd carpal bone you are correct! Little Hanna not only had a fracture, but the middle carpal joint was infected due to the communicating wound. Hanna underwent arthroscopy to flush the joint and remove any infected tissue. The fractured piece of bone was also found to be necrotic and was removed. Hanna was then treated in hospital for about 2 weeks with broad-spectrum antibiotics, repeat joint flushes and injections with antibiotics, and luckily responded very well! Check back in tomorrow for her final update!

26/08/2025

Patient: Hanna 🐴💙🩺

Hanna is a 2 year old Miniature Donkey who came to us with a chronic wound and lameness of the left carpus. She had been treated in the field initially by her local vet, but then was referred to NEC when the wound and lameness didn't improve.

When she arrived she was immediately assessed by our team and had radiographs and ultrasound of the joint performed. What can you see on the xrays? Check back in tomorrow and we will share her diagnosis and the treatment plan she underwent thanks to the dedication of her lovely owners!

Address

Lowe Street
Broadmeadow, NSW
2292

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+61249276135

Website

http://www.newcastleequinecentre.net.au/

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Newcastle Equine Centre is a fully equipped equine veterinary hospital focused on medicine and surgery for all breeds of horses. Experienced equine veterinary practitioners cater for a variety of services ranging from preventative care, reproduction and ambulatory calls to specialist medical attention and surgical services. Based at “The Old Tote Building”, on the periphery of Newcastle Racecourse in Newcastle, NSW, we offer a full range of diagnostic options for medical and surgical cases as well as travelling providing ambulatory services to the Hunter region from Murrurundi to the Central Coast and as far north as Taree. The hospital is equipped to perform a full range of elective soft tissue and orthopaedic surgeries as well as emergency surgical procedures and intensive 24-hour medical care of sick horses and foals.

Our new facility in Luskintyre will encompass rehabilitation and reproduction services to offer the full range of services to the patients under our care. This facility will allow prolonged stage recovery from surgery or injuries under supervision of vets and trained staff. In addition, we are developing a full range of reproductive services from stallion collection to AI services and embryo transfer.