Our Services

Reproduction

Drawing from all the horse experiences to optimise individual outcomes of equine breeding for Horse, Owner and farm.

Successful breeding management requires a seamless blend of advanced reproductive technology, clinical vigilance, and deep industry experience. From elite Thoroughbred nurseries and Sport Horse breeding operations to Standardbred studs, our reproductive services are designed to maximize fertility rates, manage complex breeding cycles, and safeguard mare and foal health.

Grounded in our Convergence Approach, we combine advanced reproductive diagnostics with rigorous herd health biosecurity, environmental management, and data-driven monitoring. Whether coordinating intricate artificial insemination protocols or managing high-risk pregnancies, we deliver tailored, high-precision reproductive care for studs, syndicates, and private breeders.

Key Reproductive Services:

• Advanced Mare Cycle & Follicular Management: Comprehensive diagnostic ultrasonography to monitor follicular development, track ovulation timing, and optimize breeding windows for natural cover or artificial insemination.

• Artificial Insemination (AI) Protocols: High-precision reproductive management utilizing fresh, chilled, or frozen semen, tailored to maximize conception rates in elite sport horse and stud breeding programs.

• Embryo Transfer (ET) Support: specialized reproductive care and donor/recipient mare management, collaborating with leading regional networks for embryo transfer and reproductive technologies.

• Early Pregnancy Diagnosis & Twin Management: High-resolution transrectal ultrasound for early pregnancy detection, embryo viability checks, and early twin reduction to secure safe, single-fetus gestations.

• Subfertility Diagnostics & Uterine Therapeutics: Advanced diagnostic workups for problematic or barren mares—including endometrial cytology, biopsies, uterine cultures, endoscopies, and targeted lavages/therapies.

• Foaling Management & Neonatal Intensive Care: High-risk pregnancy monitoring, high-level obstetrical foaling support, post-foaling mare checks, and immediate neonatal foal assessments (including IgG antibody testing and plasma transfusions).

• Stud Herd Health & Biosecurity Frameworks: Tailored breeding farm health programs—integrating vaccination schedules, parasite management, and biosecurity protocols to protect commercial nurseries against infectious abortion threats and reproductive losses.

FOALS

Foal Veterinary Care & Development

Bringing a new generation into the world requires a delicate balance of precise clinical science, advanced biosecurity, and expert young horse husbandry. Backed by extensive expertise in equine medicine, infectious disease epidemiology, and elite performance horse training, Dr Edward Annand provides a world-class standard of on-site veterinary care for foals, weanlings, and young growing horses. 

Operating on-site in Bundanoon, our foal services ensure your next champion receives holistic clinical monitoring and developmental support from the moment they take their first breath. 

Our Foal Services Include:

• Neonatal & Post-Foaling Checks: Health evaluations of the newborn foal and post-foaling checks of the mare, including IGG antibody testing to ensure vital colostrum transfer. 

• Developmental & Orthopaedic Monitoring: Early detection, proactive management, and optimal musculoskeletal loading to promote developing bone density, corrective strategies for angular limb deformities or growth plate issues to safeguard future soundness. 

• Advanced Biosecurity & Preventative Health: Tailored drenching protocols, vaccination schedules, and expert risk mitigation strategies designed to protect young horses from emerging infectious diseases. 

• Integrated Weaning & Handling Transitions: Working hand-in-hand with our on-site collaborative partners, we complement our veterinary care with low-stress handling practices, helping your young horse learn the basics in a calm, structured environment. 

Through our seamless on-site collaboration with Helga Riedemann Equestrian / Riedemann Performance Horses, we combine round-the-clock reproductive veterinary oversight with spelling, growth paddocks, and foal agistment. 

MARES

We have limited availability for client donor mare agistment at Helga Riedemann Equestrian, tailored for comprehensive embryo transfer programs. For Elite competition performance mares, which wish to continue training eg. Showjumping/Treadmill, there is the option to agist with Riverton Performance Horses closer to Sydney.

Embryo recovery success rates naturally improve because donor mares experience zero travel stress and remain calmer when residing on-site in a familiar, stable environment. Depending on the needs of the mare and client preference, we offer both group paddocks and private paddocks to ensure complete comfort. Our professional management ensures your donor mares receive the precise daily oversight, veterinary access, and nutritional care required for optimal reproductive cycles. In addition to expert donor care, we maintain an established on-site recipient mare herd to streamline your breeding goals from insemination through to confirmed pregnancy.

To support the next stages of your breeding program, we can seamlessly arrange ongoing foal agistment through our collaborating on-site facility, Helga Riedemann Equestrian / Riedemann Performance Horses, located in Bundanoon. This integrated approach ensures both mares and growing foals experience professional, continuous care within a nurturing environment.

A Pre-Purchase Examination (PPE) provides buyers, bloodstock agents, and syndicates with an objective, rigorous, and data-informed assessment of an equine athlete’s physical integrity, soundness, and overall suitability. Drawing on extensive clinical experience across elite international thoroughbred vetting, sports horse performance, and reproductive stud medicine, our examinations evaluate both immediate athletic potential and long-term risk factors.

We approach every examination through a convergence lens — integrating hands-on clinical diagnostic protocols with advanced imaging and biomechanical analysis. This ensures you receive a transparent, clear-sighted evaluation to make confident, fully informed decisions before acquiring high-value racing, performance, or breeding stock.

Key Components of Our Examination:

• Comprehensive 5-Stage Clinical Evaluation: Systematic physical examination covering cardiovascular, respiratory, ophthalmic, and neurological systems at rest, followed by dynamic ridden or hand-led exercise to evaluate physiological recovery and subtle respiratory or lameness indicators.

• Musculoskeletal Soundness & Biomechanics: In-depth evaluation of joint flexibility, tendon and ligament integrity, and hoof conformation—fusing veterinary diagnostic insights directly with corrective farriery and training principles to assess long-term athletic durability.

• Advanced Diagnostic Imaging: On-site digital radiography (X-rays) for joint, navicular, and spinal assessment, alongside high-resolution ultrasonography for soft-tissue structure, tendon, and ligament integrity.

• Dynamic Respiratory Endoscopy: Upper respiratory tract endoscopic exams (at rest or overground dynamic) to detect airway conditions, laryngeal function, and structural abnormalities that impact athletic performance.

• Reproductive & Stud Suitability: Specialised reproductive tract evaluations, including ultrasonography and breeding soundness exams for prospective broodmares, stallions, and elite breeding prospects.

• International Vetting & Compliance: Thorough presale vetting, blood sampling for laboratory storage or medication screening, and export certification compliant with major international auction house standards and global transport frameworks.

Maintaining optimal performance soundness through a horses lifetime, avoiding and addressing Lameness and poor performance issues require a proactive, systematic, precise clinical approach to best understand the various musculoskeletal pain-points (relative weaknesses/ vulnerability/ inflammation and progressive loading pathologies) underlying source of discomfort or relative bio-mechanical restriction &/or limitations specific to that horse, conformation, and purpose. Combining a wealth of experience consulting for leading performance horses of the broadest type and discipline often together with other leaders in this discipline in UK/ FR & Aust. in both stable/ farm and referral settings, as well as working closely with leading performance horse producers/ trainers & riders over over many years has allowed for efficient appraisal and highly rewarding, well risk-assessed/ understood proactive management, treatment and prophylactic repertoire that is supported by routine and advanced diagnostic imaging as required. Our holistic approach integrates understanding of both dynamic and static limb loading, optimal farriery and hoof balance, husbandry, work load, surfaces, movement, and training demands supporting soundness/ lameness evaluations that go beyond typical band-aid options managing symptoms to target the root cause of movement dysfunction and avoid progressive musculoskeletal pathology.

Through our Convergence Approach, we bridge clinical veterinary imaging with expert corrective farriery metrics and training intelligence. By assessing the whole horse — from hoof balance to spinal and joint dynamics — we deliver tailored diagnostic and treatment plans that rehabilitate injuries, restore optimal movement, and safeguard long-term athletic longevity.

Key Diagnostic & Treatment Capabilities:

• Comprehensive Gait & Biomechanical Analysis: Systematic evaluation of movement on hard and soft surfaces, straight lines, and lunging, complemented by ridden assessments where appropriate to pinpoint subtle gait asymmetrical changes.

• Diagnostic Nerve & Joint Blocks: Precise diagnostic anaesthesia to systematically isolate the exact anatomical location causing pain or gait alterations.

• High-Definition Diagnostic Imaging: On-site digital radiography (X-rays) to evaluate bony structures, joint health, and foot axis alignment, alongside high-resolution ultrasonography for tendon, ligament, and soft-tissue injury mapping.

• Integrated Podiatry & Farriery Solutions: Direct collaboration with farriers to align veterinary diagnostic findings straight to the foot, applying precise corrective trimming and therapeutic shoeing to relieve mechanical stress.

• Targeted Regenerative & Joint Therapies: Tailored treatment protocols — including intra-articular therapies, regenerative medicine options, and localized shock-wave/rehabilitative care — to accelerate healing and support safe return to performance

The hoof is the fundamental foundation of equine soundness and performance. Addressing mechanical imbalances, foot pain, and subtle structural changes requires a collaborative, objective approach that bridges veterinary clinical science directly with applied farriery.

Through our Convergence Approach, we connect advanced digital imaging and internal anatomical diagnostics with corrective farriery metrics and training intelligence. By measuring and evaluating the foot as a dynamic, load-bearing system, we deliver custom therapeutic plans that relieve mechanical strain, restore optimal balance, and protect long-term athletic durability.

Key Podiatry & Farriery Services:

• Diagnostic Imaging & Digital Foot Mapping: High-definition digital radiography (X-rays) to precisely measure palmar/plantar angles, sole depth, breakover, and the internal alignment of the distal phalanx (coffin bone) relative to the hoof capsule.

• Integrated Farrier Collaboration: Direct, on-the-floor teamwork with your primary farrier, sharing exact anatomical measurements and diagnostic images to guide precision trimming, shoeing modifications, and structural corrections.

• Management of Complex Hoof Conditions: Specialized clinical and therapeutic support for laminitis (founder), navicular syndrome, chronic heel pain, pedal osteitis, white line disease, and deep-seated hoof wall defects.

• Therapeutic Shoeing & Biomechanical Prescription: Designing custom shoeing packages, impression materials, modern adhesive restorations, and modified breakover mechanics to reduce stress on vulnerable tendons, ligaments, and joints.

• Conformation & Developmental Podiatry: Biomechanical evaluation and early intervention strategies for growing foals and young stock, addressing angular and flexural limb deformities before they impact long-term soundness.

When surgical intervention is required, precision, risk management, and seamless perioperative care are paramount to achieving the best possible outcome for your horse. Combining deep clinical expertise across hospital and field settings with advanced surgical techniques, we deliver both scheduled elective procedures and rapid, high-consequence emergency surgical support.

Holding advanced qualifications in Equine Surgery, we apply our Convergence Approach—integrating pre-surgical diagnostic imaging, tailored anesthesia protocols, and structured post-operative rehabilitation—to restore structural integrity and ensure a safe return to athletic performance.

Key Surgical Capabilities:

• Elective Field & Ambulatory Surgery: routine standing and recumbent field procedures, including castrations (cryptorchid/rig surgeries), lump removals, wound repairs, and standing laser or cryosurgery.

• Soft Tissue & Upper Respiratory Procedures: Diagnostic upper respiratory tract surgery, sinus procedures, and standing laser surgeries to address airway dynamic obstructions and upper tract conditions.

• Emergency Wound & Trauma Management: Advanced management of complex traumatic lacerations, synovial (joint and tendon sheath) penetrations, soft tissue infections, and acute musculoskeletal trauma.

• Orthopedic & Developmental Interventions: Surgical options for young stock and performance horses, including periosteal stripping, transphyseal bridging for angular limb deformities, and arthroscopic evaluation for joint lesions.

• Standing Surgical Capabilities: Advanced standing surgical techniques that minimize the risks associated with general anesthesia, utilizing targeted local nerve blocks and modern sedation protocols for enhanced patient safety and rapid recovery.

• Surgical Triage & Critical Referral: Expert pre-surgical stabilization, diagnostics, and seamless coordination with major specialist referral hospitals for high-consequence emergency surgeries (such as severe abdominal/colic procedures).

Equine internal medicine addresses complex, non-surgical conditions affecting the body’s major organ systems. From mysterious systemic illnesses and performance drops to high-consequence biosecurity threats, managing internal health requires rigorous diagnostic precision, deep pathophysiology knowledge, and continuous clinical vigilance.

Led by a specialist in veterinary epidemiology and virology, our approach bridges advanced clinical diagnostics with system-wide One Health intelligence. We look beyond isolated symptoms to decode complex disease dynamics, delivering evidence-based treatment protocols that safeguard individual equine health, protect herd biosecurity, and restore long-term athletic potential.

Key Internal Medicine Capabilities:

• Gastrointestinal & Colic Management: Rapid assessment, medical management, and intensive supportive care for acute and chronic abdominal pain, gastric ulcer syndrome (EGUS), colitis, and complex metabolic dysfunctions.

• Cardiorespiratory Diagnostics: In-depth evaluations of poor performance, exercise intolerance, chronic coughing, and nasal discharge using high-definition endoscopy, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), tracheal washes, and resting/exercise electrocardiography (ECG).

• Infectious & Zoonotic Disease Surveillance: Advanced diagnostic testing and biosecurity protocols for emerging infectious threats and zoonoses — including novel Hendra virus variants, biosecurity-critical respiratory pathogens, and endemic viral/bacterial infections.

• Equine Endocrine & Metabolic Health: Comprehensive diagnostic testing and long-term management for Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS), Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction (PPID/Cushing’s), insulin dysregulation, and tied-up (exertional rhabdomyolysis) cases.

• Ophthalmic & Neurological Diagnostics: Specialised diagnostics and treatment plans for acute eye conditions (corneal ulcers, recurrent uveitis) and complex neurological presentations, incorporating systemic workups and targeted therapies.

• Critical Care & Clinical Pathology: On-site blood gas, hematology, and biochemistry analysis paired with fluid therapy, intensive medical monitoring, and supportive protocols for critically ill foals and adult horses.