MJA Veterinary Services

27/02/2026

This foal presented with a significant “out at the knee” deformity at just a few weeks old.
Great result with careful monitoring, rest and nutrition management — no surgery required (and we love doing surgery!!).
A good reminder that sometimes less is more. 🐎

27/11/2025

🐎 💓 Matchy matchy in our flash new ‘uniforms’! 💓 🐎

11/11/2025

Congratulations to the connections behind this amazing horse 🐴 🐎 🏆

Chris Frisby was on track at Addington to enjoy He Aint Fakin winning the Final Heat of the World Drivers Championships.🌍 🥇

The former Pacer turned Trotter was driven by Italian Giampaolo Minnucci who was the driver of champion square gaiter, Varenne.🇮🇹

He Aint Fakin is now trained by Phil Williamson.

Chris is joined by good friends Steve Turnbull, Peter Rixon and Bernie Hewitt in the Winners Circle.✨

24/10/2025

Snoozing after surgery 💤🐴
Hoof extensions and periosteal strips to help straighten those legs and prevent future injuries.

16/10/2025

Plenty of foals hitting the ground and keeping us on our toes!

24/09/2025

TBT to our guest appearance on Ladies Who Punt 🎙️🐎
We spoke about the fascinating science behind training young horses and how exercise shapes their future soundness.

A balanced exercise program is essential for all young horses—no matter the discipline. Their bones and joints need controlled stimulus to adapt to the demands of maturity. If left only in the paddock, they adapt to life in the paddock 🤷‍♀️.

Short training preps with rest in between give the musculoskeletal system exactly what it needs: stimulus to adapt, with time to recover.

It’s a remarkable feat of biology—and the science of bone modelling and adaptation is changing the way we understand how young horses develop 🤓.

13/09/2025

Congratulations Liv Frisby🥇 and Phoebe Betts 🥈 running 1st and 2nd in the final of the Club Menangle Waratah Final! 🥳🥳 🥇🥈 🐎

06/09/2025

Congratulations team Hewitt! Good luck to all the Bathurst contingent racing tonight 🍀 🐎 🤞🏻

10/08/2025

Good luck Team Turnbull! 🐎 🐯

21/07/2025

MJA vet services represented Bain Fallon conference on the Sunshine Coast! 🌞 🐎

We presented a poster entitled ‘Successful Management of Post Castration Evisceration in the Field’.

This is a rare but serious complication that occurs after castration when the small intestine escapes through the surgical incision.
We are used to dealing with these surgical emergencies in a hospital setting but referral for this horse wasn’t an option. He beat all the odds and did really well after a field surgery to clean the intestines, cut a strangulating piece of tissue that was stopping them going back, replacing them in the abdomen and closing it up.

An amazing example of how tough STBs are- we can’t wait to see what he does on the track!!