Riviera Equine Internal Medicine & Consulting

19/05/2026

There’s something incredibly inspiring about witnessing true excellence - in equestrian sports, in nature and last week in witnessing perform for our small town’s arts community fundraiser. Alecia (as known around town), you are an inspiration for excellence and a true gem 🩷

06/05/2026

25 years young and still eventing with speed, this mare’s got heart ❤️!! While body systems do change with time, old age itself is not a disease. Discovery of a heart murmur prompted the initial evaluation. We follow this feisty mare’s cardiac function regularly now to ensure she and her rider are safe to carry on.

15/04/2026

Serum allergy testing in horses is one of the most misunderstood tools in equine medicine. 🐴
A common misconception is that a “positive” blood test confirms an allergy—and a “negative” result rules it out. In reality, serum IgE testing is far more complex. Results can reflect exposure, cross-reactivity, or normal immune variation, rather than true clinical disease.
That’s why interpretation matters more than the test result itself. Serum allergy testing results are best used to direct immunotherapy development, not to confirm allergy as a condition or direct elimination of anything in the horse’s environment. And an important PSA: Allergy testing is not a reliable means of testing food allergies, unfortunately.

Good medicine is about interpretation of specific test results in the context of individual patients. 🤓

03/04/2026

While I see lots of complex medical cases and use advanced equipment daily, I’m keeping it simple at home. High quality hay and the cleanest alfalfa pellets come from , friends are made over time and fence lines, and room to really move….it’s my unwind at the end of a long day❤️

30/03/2026

When your equipment matches their racing colors, it looks like a complete outfit 🤩 Exercising ECG in all types of equine athletes allows for fitness monitoring as well as early detection of a problem. ❤️ Thank you to for allowing us to work at your beautiful place.

23/03/2026

OK, we’ll have a go at this fun trend 🤣

18/03/2026

11/03/2026

As season heats up, we often see airway issues, gastric ulcers and muscle problems in these fierce 🐴 competitors. Helping them feel & perform their best is truly rewarding!

07/03/2026

Spring has sprung in the where it’s great to be an ❤️

17/02/2026

Watch how your horse breathes in crossties-typically slow shallow breaths. Walking while nebulizing helps ensure delivery of medication where it’s needed-deep into the lngs. If you can look as cool as while walking and nebulizing, all the better 😎😎