Sounder Equine Lameness Clinic

14/05/2026

Petplan and ADCH Animal Charity Awards

11/05/2026

🏆🏅We have kindly had a nomination for the 2026 Pet Plan awards 🏆🏅.

✨🐴We work really hard to try and deliver the best service for you and your four legged friends and we always love to hear feedback and comments but this nomination was a lovely surprise to have had🐴✨

If anyone else would like to vote please feel free to follow the link below, who knows you may even get to see David in a suit if we make it to the finals🕴️.

Thank you all as always for your continued support.
Ruth, David, Lizzie and Lucy💕

Petplan and ADCH Animal Charity Awards

07/04/2026

Hi to all our clients and their lovely horses..

We are as busy as ever, so a big 'thank-you' to all you clients that stay with us and recommend us. Being too busy is a lovely problem to have!

We really do not want to let our standards slip, but the sheer amount of cases we are seeing and the admin and follow ups that come with them are making things a little tricky to manage. We also feel very frustrated when we cannot revisit cases quickly when it’s needed.

We have made the decision to really cut down on ambulatory visits, with the exception of the cases that should not travel after a period of box rest etc. It has not been easy to make this decision but we need to be able to manage our case load to maintain a high standard of quality and care. The travel time required to get from appointments, combined with only seeing one horse at a time, is very much at the expense of potentially seeing three cases at the clinic. Just one hour on the road to a yard and an hour back, to work up a lameness correctly just doesn’t work, and we almost always feel we could have done a better job/taken better images etc at the clinic.

We appreciate this is not the ideal situation for everyone and we do apologise for any inconvenience this will cause, but we truly feel this is the best way to take the practice forward, offer the best care and enable us to carry out administrative duties in a timely manner while also having time to cut down on our waiting list.

We do understand that some of you may feel that you might rather have your horse seen in the yard by another practice, rather than travel them to us, and we will always support your wishes in that regard.

If you have any questions regarding this decision please feel free to get in touch.

In the meantime, happy riding in this lovely weather!

The Sounder Equine Team.

19/03/2026

We have kindly been nominated for “Vet practice fo the year” for the equestrian business awards.

We always love to hear feedback from clients and this was a lovely suprise to have had.

If anyone else fancy’s giving David a night off 🤣🥂🎉 then please feel free to follow the link below and vote.

www.equestrianbusinessawards.co.uk

We may be a bit late to the party as nominations close on the 1st April!

Thank you all as always for your continued support.

Ruth, David, Lizzie and Lucy

The UK's first awards aimed specifically at small equestrian businesses. Celebrating Equestrian Excellence.

23/02/2026

Good morning to all our clients old and new,

Just a little note to say the practice will be closed between the 6th and the 16th March clinically as we are allowing David (and the rest of us) a little break! There will be some intermittent admin cover through the closure period.

As always if you have any repeat prescriptions needed, admin or insurance query please let us know before the 5th order to get this done.

Many thanks,
Ruth, David and Lizzie.

15/01/2026

For those of you who haven’t yet met Lucy, we would like to introduce you.

Lucy has been helping us out for the last year and is now going to be a regular face for those who visit on a Wednesday at the clinic. Lucy has lots of experience with horses and is a true through and through equestrian! She is great with our patients and is a kind, calm and safe handler.

Lucy is quickly picking up the trade of veterinary assistant and is already a valuable member of the team.

Welcome to the Sounder Equine family Lucy, we’re thrilled to have you helping us out.

11/12/2025

This seems to be a fav picture shoot for our clients - this is the most recent model - taking in some of the winter sun we had recently.

We’d love to see your photoshoots while visiting us here at sounder equine.

10/12/2025

As we near the Christmas season just a little reminder of our closed periods.

Our Christmas opening hours are:

Closed from December the 24th 🎄🎅🏻
David on road appt opening Monday 5th Jan 🚗
Office & clinic opening Tuesday the 6th Jan 🎉

Any insurance forms that need sorting, admin issues, prescriptions and medication orders need to be with us by the 17th December to give us time to organise.

We’d also like to take this opportunity to thank you for our lovey gifts - We have been very spoilt. 🎁

Also a massive thank you to everyone for all your support this year, It’s been a busy busy one and we’re looking forward to 2026.

Ruth, David and Lizzie.

13/11/2025

Good morning, and yet another warm and beautiful one it is too for what’s is looking to be another busy day here at the Sounder Equine Clinic.

Just a quick note to say that we are fully booked now for this year. So anyone looking to book In we are now looking at January 2026!

Thank you again to everyone for all your continued business and support for what’s been another busy busy year.

Our Christmas opening hours are:

Closed from December the 24th 🎄🎅🏻
David on road appt opening Monday 5th Jan 🚗
Office & clinic opening Tuesday the 6th Jan 🎉

16/10/2025

Please be aware as off tomorrow (17th October), Ruth will be off for 2 weeks and the practice will be closed for 1 week as off 28th October.

All enquires will be answered next week but please be mindful that David and Lucy will be working up cases during the week as normal so reply’s may be slower than normal.

Many thanks for your understanding and we hope you have a great half term and Halloween! 🎃👻💀.