Dr. Ryan Carpenter graduated from UC Davis, school of veterinary medicine in 2005 and went on to complete a surgical residency and combined master’s program at Colorado State University where he conducted orthopedic research projects focusing on gene therapy and fracture healing under the direction of the Equine Orthopedic Research Center at CSU. Ryan spends his mornings as an active racetrack practitioner and his afternoons in the hospital specializing in orthopedic and upper airway surgery. When not at the track, Ryan enjoys spending time with his wife, Jill, and daughters Brooklyn (7 y/o) and Taylor (4.5 y/o), pretty much doing whatever the little ones want to do because that changes most days!!!

Dr. Clara Fenger graduated with her veterinary degree from the University of California at Davis in 1988, and after briefly practicing in California, she went on to an Internal Medicine residency and Master’s Degree program in Equine Exercise Physiology at the Ohio State University, where she worked with Ken McKeever and Ken Hinchcliff. She later received her PhD studying Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis at the University of Kentucky. During her graduate studies at UK, she moonlighted working for the Kentucky Racing Commission as a State Veterinarian and developed a passion for the sport of horse racing. She continued this association with the racing commission for 15 years. She is currently a practitioner in Central Kentucky specializing in both Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds, and owns Thoroughbred racehorses.

Dr. Scott Hay, a 1988 graduate of Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, has been with the thoroughbred racetrack practice Teigland, Franklin and Brokken for his entire veterinary career. Growing up in Kansas, Dr. Hay spent much of his youth working for his father, also a veterinarian. He is currently the president and managing partner of TFB. Dr. Hay’s clinical focus is on lameness, performance evaluations and purchase examinations. When not in South Florida attending to racehorses, Dr. Hay travels to many thoroughbred sales consulting with clients on potential purchases. Dr. Hay is a former President of the American Association of Equine Practitioners and has been active in many committees during his membership in the AAEP. He also serves on the Racing Medication Testing Consortium’s Scientific Advisory Committee and is a former member of the Grayson Jockey Club Scientific Advisory Committee.

Rebecca graduated as a veterinary surgeon from the RVC in 2003. She worked for 16 years in clinical practice in various roles, predominantly involved in Thoroughbred racing and breeding in the UK and Middle East. During which time she worked as a treating veterinarian at Lingfield Park Racecourse and the Olympic and Paralympic games in London, and was head of veterinary services at the Rashid Equestrian and Horseracing Club in Bahrain. In 2018 she returned to the RVC, to undertake a PhD investigating the epidemiology of disease and injury in Thoroughbred foals and yearlings, which she was awarded in July 2022. She is currently a Horserace Betting Levy Board funded Post-Doctoral Research Fellow investigating early-life determinants of performance and the economics of Thoroughbred breeding and the epidemiology and genetics of congenital muskuloskeletal dissorders in neonatal Thoroughbreds.