PRACTICES / Newmarket, UK
Baker McVeigh Newmarket was established in 2006 and has proved to be the central hub for our group’s expansion throughout the UK and further afield.
Located in the heart of Newmarket, our practice focuses on all aspects of sports and performance horse work.
Our clinicians look after several local and international thoroughbred and racing yards, and are renowned for our prophylactic approach. Our thoroughbred-based services expand to vettings, both locally and internationally. Furthermore, the Baker McVeigh vets provide a regular service at all major thoroughbred auctions throughout Europe and beyond.
Additionally, Newmarket has developed a growing presence in the sport horse world in recent years, with notable key clients ensuring that Baker McVeigh’s name is now synonymous in these fields.
Baker McVeigh Newmarket have extended their presence to Longholes Stud. In our new specialised setting, Longholes is a facility for your horse to be assessed, cared for and where our vets can help with every demand. The development of our new facilities presents an exciting and new chapter for Baker McVeigh Newmarket. To find out more information, please visit: www.longholes.com
We are now listed as official measurers with JMB
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We are now listed as official measurers with JMB -
Meet Our Veterinarians
Antony Clements
Partner in Cape Town, Newmarket, Yorkshire, Lambourn, Chantilly and Bahrain
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Antony Clements joined the Baker McVeigh group in 2001, having previously worked in practices in Hampshire and the University of Glasgow. He has extensive experience and post-graduate qualifications in equine orthopaedics. After moving to Durban and helping to establish the Cape Town practice, Antony moved to the UK where he became the managing partner of the Newmarket practice. He now tends to the needs of our larger clients and offers consulting services across the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
John McVeigh
Partner in Summerveld, Cape Town, Newmarket, Yorkshire, Lambourn, Chantilly and Johannesburg.
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Leading the Baker McVeigh group is the renowned John McVeigh, a prominent figure in international horse racing circles. For three and a half decades, John has played a significant role in the expansion and development of our Baker McVeigh practices, overseeing the business’s growth across six practices, over three continents.
John is based in Summerveld and continues to travel to our other practices, offering his assistance, expertise and knowledge.
Duncan Moir
Partner in Newmarket, Yorkshire, Lambourn and Bahrain
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Following several years with Baker McVeigh in South Africa, Duncan returned to the UK to help establish our Newmarket practice. Since then, he has developed an extensive client base in all areas of thoroughbred racing and sports horse fields. With a particular interest in sports medicine, Duncan manages several racing yards in Newmarket. In addition, he vets and consults for various private clients both in the UK and internationally.
Fernando Perez de Villar
Partner in Newmarket, Yorkshire, Lambourn and Bahrain
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Hailing from Spain, Fernando joined our Baker McVeigh practice in Newmarket soon after its inception, in 2006. Following his graduation from Madrid, he worked for three years in Spain before moving to the UK where he has been residing for the last twenty years. Fernando worked in a large animal practice in Surrey, where he dealt mostly with horses. Moreover, he has a wealth of experience in all aspects of equine practice and gained the RCVS Certificate in Equine Practice, in 2006. In 2011, Fernando became a partner and has been instrumental in the success of our Baker McVeigh Newmarket practice.
Jenny Owen
Newmarket
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Jenny graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in London. Before joining Baker McVeigh in 2014, she worked in a busy equine practice based in Cheltenham, servicing both flat and jump racing clients. Jenny has now settled in Newmarket with her husband James who runs a pre-training yard in town. She is kept busy in one of our largest yards and by her growing list of clients.
Mark O’Sullivan
Newmarket
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Mark graduated as a veterinarian from Dublin in 2016 and then moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where he carried out an internship in surgery and sports medicine. Following the completion of his internship, Mark moved to Sydney, Australia, where he spent two years at Randwick Equine Centre. In Sydney, Mark carried out both racetrack and sport horse work. His main interests are surgery, diagnostic imaging, and lameness.
Eoghan Nagle
Newmarket and Bahrain
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Eoghan joined Baker McVeigh Newmarket in August 2019. He developed a passion for horses and horse racing when his family moved to Cork, close to where his uncle T.J Nagle trains National Hunt horses. He spent his weekends there riding horses and competed in pony races growing up. Eoghan graduated as a veterinarian from Warsaw in 2018 and moved to Lexington, in Kentucky, where he completed an internship at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute. His main interests are surgery, diagnostic imaging, and lameness.
Gregor Hepburn
Newmarket
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Gregor spent the first seventeen years of his life on the family farm in the Scottish Borders before enrolling at Edinburgh University, to study to become a veterinarian. He moved to Baker McVeigh Newmarket in June 2020 following his two years at Ballarat Equine Clinic in Melbourne, Australia. He then moved to Newmarket and joined the Baker McVeigh team.
Cathal Boland
Newmarket
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Cathal graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2019 and began working on a farm and equine practice in West Yorkshire, shortly afterward. He joined Baker McVeigh Newmarket in September 2020, with the hopes of traveling to South Africa to continue the Junior Associate Programme.
Dr Sophie de la Farge
Newmarket
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Sophie conducted her veterinary studies in Maisons-Alfort. After some time spent in the South African and Newmarket practices, she joined our Baker McVeigh team in Chantilly, in January 2011 and became a partner in 2014. Sophie has contributed significantly to the growth of the practice. In addition to aiding a world championship level endurance team, Sophie looks after several top-level racing and show jumping yards, where she regularly flies overseas to service these clients.
In 2017, Sophie graduated with the internationally recognized ISELP certificate (International Society of Equine Locomotor Pathology). This highly specialized degree in lameness examination has been achieved by only 50 veterinarians around the world.
Dr John Hodsdon
Lambourn, Cape Town and Newmarket
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John graduated from Onderstepoort in 2003. As a new graduate, he went to the UK where he practiced in Suffolk and Essex at two different equine practices. In 2011, he returned to Natal Midlands, one of the main thoroughbred breeding regions in South Africa. Here he continued working in the thoroughbred breeding industry. He currently migrates between the Northern and Southern hemispheres for the equine breeding seasons.
Joshua Alcock
Newmarket
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Josh graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2018. He started his career in a busy ambulatory and second opinion equine practice in the south east of England. Josh has previously spent time in our Durban and Johnannesbury practice and since April 2023, he has moved back to Newmarket. He enjoys all aspects of equine clinical work, but has a particular interest in sport horse lameness and poor performance investigations.
Contact Us
Contact No: +44(0) 1638 667602
Hill House, 2 Falmouth Ave, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 0NB (UK)
Longholes, Cheveley, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 9EJ (UK)