Every service below is delivered where your horses live and compete — thorough, unhurried, and personal. Not sure what your horse needs? Start with a call.
In a performance horse, soundness is rarely black and white — it's a half-step behind, a lead that's suddenly hard, a jump that used to be easy. Dr. Murphy approaches every lameness systematically: a careful history, hands-on palpation, hoof testers, evaluation in motion, flexion tests, and diagnostic analgesia to localize the problem rather than guess at it.
From there, the plan is built around the individual horse — its job, its schedule, and honest conversation about what will actually help.
A good pre-purchase exam doesn't tell you whether to buy a horse — it tells you exactly what you'd be buying. Dr. Murphy performs meticulous, impartial PPEs on behalf of the buyer: a comprehensive physical, evaluation in motion, flexions, and additional diagnostics as requested.
Findings are discussed candidly — including what they're likely to mean for the horse's intended job — and documented so you can make the decision with clear eyes, whether the horse is down the road or across the country.
Dental comfort shows up everywhere: in condition, in the bridle, in the quality of the contact. Routine, veterinarian-performed dental care catches problems while they're still small — and keeps a performance horse soft and even in the hand.
Dr. Murphy performs complete oral examinations and routine dental work with appropriate sedation and a proper speculum exam, not a quick float in the aisle.
Horses that travel and compete need more than a spring and fall visit — they need a preventative program that matches their exposure and their calendar. Dr. Murphy builds vaccination and deworming plans around each horse's risk, region, and competition schedule, and keeps the paperwork ahead of the next trip.
Horses find trouble — usually at the worst possible time. When they do, prompt and careful treatment makes the difference between a scar story and a setback. Dr. Murphy provides thorough wound assessment and repair, with the bandaging plans and follow-up visits that carry a wound through to full recovery.
Colic at feeding time. A swollen eye. A fever the morning of departure. The horse that's just not himself. Full-service ambulatory practice means these calls get a thorough workup and a straight answer — including when a case would be better served by a referral hospital, and coordination to get it there.
Describe what you're seeing and Dr. Murphy will point you in the right direction — whether that's an appointment this week or reassurance that it can wait.