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Rossdales

Equine veterinary practice founded near Newmarket in 1959, with a hospital and diagnostic centre, laboratories and practices in Newmarket, Hertfordshire and Lambourn.

Category
Veterinary services and diagnostics
Country
United Kingdom
Head office
Newmarket
Founded
1959

What it supplies

Rossdales is an equine veterinary practice offering first-opinion and specialist referral services. According to its website, it was founded in late 1959 by Peter Rossdale, who set up a practice in Dullingham Road outside Newmarket, and it now has 60 veterinary surgeons and more than 120 support staff across four locations. The site describes the practice as a member of the VetPartners family.

The Equine Hospital and Diagnostic Centre at Exning, near Newmarket, provides referral work including orthopaedic and soft tissue surgery, internal medicine, ophthalmology, dermatology, dentistry, lameness investigation and diagnostic imaging. Ambulatory teams in Newmarket, Hertfordshire and Lambourn cover racehorses, stud and reproduction work, sport horses, pre-purchase examinations, bloodstock sales and horse exports. Rossdales Laboratories in Newmarket receives samples from other practices; the site states that almost 70% of hospital referrals and laboratory samples come from UK and other EU practices.

Products and services

  • First-opinion ambulatory equine veterinary services
  • Specialist referral surgery and medicine
  • Diagnostic imaging, including mobile diagnostic imaging
  • Stud and reproduction services
  • Pre-purchase, bloodstock sales and export examinations
  • Rossdales Laboratories diagnostic testing

Sources

Details are taken from the pages on its own website listed below. Regulatory status is shown only where the supplier or the regulator states it. Listing last checked 17 October 2026.

  1. Rossdales, home page
  2. Rossdales, About us
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