About Us

Gold Coast Equine Clinic employs an experienced team of equine-only veterinarians who are dedicated to the care of your horse. Our clinic is located at 15 Ken Russell Court, Bundall, within the Gold Coast Equine Precinct adjacent to the Gold Coast Turf Club and the Magic Millions Sales Complex. We also provide on location veterinary services to horses in the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Scenic Rim and Northern NSW regions.

Our experienced vets are here for you and your equine family members with preventative and ambulatory care, whilst our nurses and office staff offer quality care for any hospitalized patients and assist our vets and clients where possible. Our team pride ourselves in providing a highly efficient and professional service to our clients and we are committed to providing the best possible care for your horse.

Staff – Veterinarians

Dr Rhian Partridge

MA Cantab Vet MB MRCVS - Director

Rhian joined Gold Coast Equine Clinic in July 2015 after emigrating from the UK. She worked in equine practice in the UK for 8 years after graduating from Cambridge University in 2007 and loved the variety and challenges of general practice in rural England, including a lot of FEI Endurance and Eventing Competition cover.

Since arriving on the Gold Coast Rhian has loved continuing her passion for everything equine practice has to offer and recently took over ownership of the clinic, after sadly Charlie McCormack had to take a step back following a serious head injury at the Magic Millions Sales in June of 2019.

Rhian has a particular interest in Equine Medicine, but also enjoys poor performance investigations and has become increasingly interested in ophthalmology since moving to SE Queensland, where we seem to see an extraordinary amount of complex eye conditions!!

Rhian welcomed little Iwan into the family in February 2019 so is certainly kept busy, attempting to balance entertaining an ever adventurous 5 year old and juggling running a busy practice. She is loving the challenge and when time allows takes a breather with the family and her beloved ridgeback Phinda.

Dr Gene Lee

BVSc (Hons), Grad.Dip.Vet Clin Studies (Equine)

Gene graduated from the University of Queensland in the year 2020.

The following year Gene completed a 18-month Equine Surgery and Anaesthesia Internship at Scone Equine Hospital in Upper Hunter Valley. This was followed by a Specialty Traineeship in Large Animals, with Equine Medicine and Surgery focus, at Murdoch University, Western Australia. She gained invaluable experiences and skills from the specialists she worked with in the previous two internships.

Gene is originated from Hong Kong and developed a strong interest in Thoroughbred Racehorses at young age due to the strong horse racing culture in Hong Kong. She has a particular interest in equine upper airway surgery, colics and septic synovitis.

On her days off, Gene enjoys running, playing the piano and learning new languages.

Nursing and Administrative Staff

Casey Pierpoint

Veterinary Nurse

Casey joined the clinic in October 2021, looking for a change of scenery after having spent a decade working in Thoroughbred racing, breeding and sales.

Being a horse owner herself for 20+ years and having owned horses with complex health and soundness issues. Casey has a wealth of knowledge and understanding of how challenging owning an unwell horse can be!

Casey spends her time off with her warmblood “Sebby”, who is affectionately known around the clinic as “The Labrador”. You may see them out and about at some dressage events chipping away at goals!

Joanne Parkes

Receptionist

She has spent her entire career working in the animal industry, working for a number of animal welfare agencies and Local Government animal management departments. Joanne’s career has been about dogs, dogs and more dogs. She is a qualified professional dog trainer and is the “mad dog lady” of the GCEC crew. She has run puppy training classes and other specialty dog training classes for many years.

She competes in dog sports with her own dogs and is a self-confessed dog sport addict. In particular, Flyball racing which is essentially drag racing for dogs!!! Joanne and her dogs have been part of teams holding many National titles, Australian records and a World Dog Games title in 2009.

As a child, Joanne always wanted a horse. However, growing up in a non -horsey family meant this dream was not realised until well into adulthood when she adopted her first horse “Bob” in 2010. She now shares her home with two horses, an Arab X and a Standardbred.

Jo is the friendly voice at the end of the phone when you call our clinic and handles all things admin for our team of Vets and support staff.