Equine Veterinary Centre

- Several reviewers describe the staff as friendly, pleasant, helpful, and knowledgeable. - Emergency support is a recurring theme, especially around colic, with owners praising calm help and out-of-hours availability. - Stud and reproduction work stands out in the feedback, with one owner reporting strong breeding results and fewer complications.

Equine Veterinary Centre in Doncaster is an equine-focused clinic offering emergency veterinary services and is also listed as a veterinary nurse training facility. Recent feedback most often highlights urgent help with colic, stud and reproduction work, and reassuring out-of-hours phone support. Reviews are largely positive overall, although there is one detailed negative account about how a vetting was handled.

Services

•Emergency and urgent equine care, with owners describing support during colic episodes and help by phone late at night and early in the morning.
•Stud and reproduction work, including breeding support; one stud owner reports a particularly successful season with five mares in foal on the first attempt.
•General equine veterinary care, with reviewers mentioning kind handling across different horses and ponies, including a rescue pony, young horses, and an older cob.
•Equine vetting, mentioned in reviews, including one strongly critical account of a pre-purchase examination.
•Veterinary nurse training facility, as listed in the clinic information.
•Facilities noted by visitors include plenty of room on arrival and an arena.

Pricing

No published pricing information is currently available for this clinic.

People

•Libby Dutton is named in recent reviews, particularly for stud and reproduction work and for being available by phone in urgent situations outside normal hours. She is also named in a detailed negative review about a vetting.
•Jess and Gabri are named in an older review and were praised for their kindness and compassion while treating a pony after a dog attack.

Reviews

Google rating: 4.5 stars from 44 reviews.

•Several reviewers describe the staff as friendly, pleasant, helpful, and knowledgeable.
•Emergency support is a recurring theme, especially around colic, with owners praising calm help and out-of-hours availability.
•Stud and reproduction work stands out in the feedback, with one owner reporting strong breeding results and fewer complications.
•There is one detailed negative review about a vetting, alleging unprofessional comments and disputed clinical judgement, which sits in contrast to the otherwise positive tone of the recent feedback.

Reviews for Equine Veterinary Centre

Note: Showing the 10 most recent Google reviews out of 44 we track in total. Recent reviews may not be representative of overall sentiment.

Jamie Connell

3 months ago

Daughter really enjoyed it plenty of room on arrival friendly and facilities as you would expect great arena

jillian doherty

Great service

Cheryl Almand

7 months ago

Always find the Staff helpful & pleasant. Vets really knowledgeable. All were a god send when my horse had colic

Yasmin Jaouane

As owner of Seven Hills Stud Ltd, I decided to change vets in 2025 for all of our stud and reproduction work. The main focus of our business is reproduction and the need to have excellent, committed vets to ensure maximum reproductive rates is paramount. The service I received from EVC and Libby Dutton has been absolutely top class. For the first time ever, we got 5 mares in foal on the first attempt and had the most successful breeding season we have ever had. Libby has been diligent, goes above and beyond and has demonstrated her experience and knowledge not only through her professionalism but in her results - we have the most mares pregnant this year that we have ever had, with fewer complications and happier mares. Libby has been on the other end of the phone at midnight and 06:00 when we have needed urgent support, without a question and always with a reassuring word (and sense of humour when needed!) I would not hesitate to recommend EVC and Libby not only for reproductive work but for everything equine - EVC have not only taken over our stud work but all of our day-to-day veterinary needs. We look forward to continuing our work with EVC in future.

Lauren Bailey

Isabelle Woodcraft

Fantastic knowledgeable staff, super friendly & helpful. Found these guys after our local equine vet retired and we bounced around a few before settling with these guys. Kind with our rescue pony, young horses and they loved our steady solid cob. Keep up the good work 😊

Punton Smith

10 months ago

Disappointing and highly unprofessional. A vet’s role during a vetting is to provide impartial, factual advice—not to offer personal opinions or make disparaging remarks. Libby Dutton appeared to overstep this role. Despite both buyer and seller agreeing that the vetting process would be transparent and open to all involved, Libby insisted that the seller should take the horse to the stable (completely out of the way of where she and potential buyer stood) and then gave the buyer unsolicited personal opinions, describing the seller as 'suspicious' and 'dodgy' then continuing to say ‘categorically, do not buy this horse.’ This conduct is entirely inappropriate and undermines the professionalism expected in such circumstances. To add to the concern, her lack of knowledge as a vet was questionable when she questioned whether a clearly fresh wound—still bleeding slightly and likely only a couple of hours old—could have been an old scar from an injection or procedure the horse underwent five years ago, stated windgalls on the horse were a problem, when the horse categorically DOES NOT have them. Libby repeatedly stated, at least three times within the first ten minutes of arriving for the vetting, 'IF we even get to the blood tests,' which gave the impression that she had no real intention of reaching that stage of the examination, before she has even started. Just to top it off, said horse has been seen by 2 other very highly rated vets for full lameness work ups, scans and X-rays since Libbys visit as I was absolutely shocked and devastated, and not a single thing was found, both vets said horse is completely sound and nothing to show on scans or x-rays!!

Sandra Leonard

5 years ago

I would just like to say how impressed I was with the service we received from Jess and Gabri at this practice. They tried their hardest to save our pony after he was savagely attacked by dogs. Their kindness and compassion was outstanding. Sadly the pony had to be put to sleep. I would not hesitate to recommend this practice to anyone. Thank you once again.