Stable Close Equine Practice

16/12/2025

🎄 Medications for Christmas! 🎄

With the festive period nearly upon us, please remember to order any routine medications and prescriptions early to avoid running out over Christmas and New Year.
Supplier deliveries and opening hours will be reduced, so advance notice really helps us help you and your horses.

Thank you!

05/12/2025

🎄 Strangles Vaccine Amnesty – December Only! 🎄

This December, Stable Close Equine Practice is taking part in the national amnesty, giving horse owners the chance to start Strangvac vaccination and receive the second and subsequent booster doses at half price (*normal visit fees still apply).

You can find full details in our latest newsletter, but if you’d like to take advantage of the offer, please contact the office to book your horse’s primary course before 31st December.

Keep your horses protected this winter – we’re here to help! 🐴✨

24/11/2025

⚡ POWER CUT PALAVER! ⚡

Stable Close Equine Practice is currently experiencing a power cut!
Our phones are running (just about!), but we’re a little limited until the lights decide to join us again.

👉 Please only call today if it’s an emergency or an urgent request – we promise we’re not ignoring you, we’re just operating on good old-fashioned grit and gumption until the power returns!

Thanks for your patience, sense of humour, and continued support.

The Stable Close Team

19/11/2025

🛠️🛠️SCEDULED POWER OUTAGE - 24TH NOVEMBER 2025 🛠️🛠️
Please be advised that a scheduled power outage will take place at our office on Monday 24th November 2025.
During this time, our phone lines will remain operational but with limited capacity. We kindly ask that you only contact the office in cases of emergency.

Normal operations will resume on 25th November 2025.

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

17/11/2025

Strangles is a highly contagious disease in horses worldwide.

Once infected, abscesses can form in the lymph nodes, causing severe respiratory problems.

To find out more about how the disease is picked up and spreads and how strangles leads to carriers visit

https://www.dechra.co.uk/equine/vaccines/strangles

Access resources designed for Veterinarians diagnosing or treating horses with strangles. Dechra is a global specialist in veterinary pharmaceuticals.

08/11/2025

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🚨 There's just a week to go until our second Welfare Wednesday Webinar 🚨

In our second episode of the series, we look at ‘How to Train Your Horse for Veterinary Procedures’ with Equine Vet and Lecturer in Clinical Equine Practice at the University of Surrey, Holly Lenaghan.

📅 Wednesday 12 November
🕖 7:00 – 8:15pm
👉 https://bit.ly/3JGBNhY

At least once a year, your horse will see a vet for their annual vaccinations and a check- up. How can we make sure that horses are prepared for everything the vet needs to do?

Holly will discuss how we can train horses for routine veterinary procedures such as accepting needles for vaccinations and sedation. Based on her experience in practice, Holly will guide us through useful techniques to help break the training down into manageable steps for both horses and horse owners to help take the sting out of vet visits.

28/10/2025

🐎🐎 OUR TALK THIS EVENING! 🐎🐎

We have been made aware that the car park will be particularly busy at the rugby club, therefore advise early arrival! Alternatively, if the car park is full, we are able to park in the bottom end of Perins School car park.

The B3047 between Kingsworthy and Alresford, is closed! Please consider this when planning your journey!

We look forward to seeing you!

16/10/2025

You will be aware there is currently much discussion over Vets discussing and publishing their prices.

Stable Close Equine Practice has always been very open about our pricing - there has been a published list of many of our prices on our website for sometime now, and we are more than happy to supply estimates before carrying out any treatment.

We want to continue providing you with the excellent care you have become accustomed to from our established and trustworthy team.
If you have any questions or concerns about your horses care or cost of (proposed) treatments please do get in touch!

Prices of common procedures at Stable Close Equine Practice

11/10/2025

✨ One Night Only! ✨
We’re thrilled to welcome back Malcolm Morley for a special evening as he shares insights from his inspiring work with World Horse Welfare. Joining him is field officer Penny Baker, who will offer a behind the scenes look at the real world challenges faced in equine welfare.

🎤 Plus, our very own Bridey Shawyer will introduce the latest addition to our toolkit, the dental oroscope, and explain how this is transforming equine dental care.

📅 Tuesday 28th October 2025 at 7pm for a 7:30pm start. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn, connect, and see innovation in action!

01/10/2025

🔎 SPECIAL OFFER - October Equine Oroscopy Clinics 🔎

This October, we’re running oroscopy clinics with our vet Bridey, at a special introductory reduced price!

✅ Oroscopy - £50
✅ 10% off routine dental with sedation at time of oroscopy - £82.93
✅ Based at the practice, so no call out fee!

Horses with dental issues such as quidding, weight loss, bitting problems, or oral pain may benefit from oroscopy.

📞 Contact the office to book your horse’s place - spaces are limited and filling fast!

29/09/2025

🎉 Congratulations to our very own Vicky Jux – BEVA’s Member of the Month! 🎉

We’re so proud to see Vicky recognised for the incredible leader she is. She truly leads by example, inspires everyone around her, and we feel lucky every day to have her on our team. 💙

Well done, Vicky – this recognition is so well deserved! 👏✨

19/09/2025

💙 This week we said goodbye (again!) to vet Izzy Wild as she heads off to begin her PhD.

It’s been such a joy having Izzy back with us over the summer, reunited with the team after 5 years away. Many of you will remember that Izzy spent the first two years of her vet career with us here at Stable Close, as well as visiting us many times as a student, and she was such a valued member of the team then, just as she has been on her return.

We wish her every success in this exciting next chapter, and we know she’ll bring the same passion and dedication to her research as she has always given her patients.

Good luck Izzy and thank you for everything! We will miss you🌟🐴