Cooke C.

Charles Cooke qualified from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London in 2000 and worked with Dr Jonathan Pycock at Equine Reproductive Services Ltd, Malton, UK and in the Southern Hemisphere for 4 years. In 2004 he moved to Rossdale and Partners, Newmarket where he worked predominantly on Thoroughbred studs but was also involved with the breeding of Suffolk Punch horses and Connemaras. He spent a short time in Somerset and then moved back to Yorkshire before rejoining Equine Reproductive Services (UK) Ltd in 2013, becoming a director in 2016. He completed the RCVS Certificate in Equine Medicine (Stud Medicine) in 2008, has been an honorary lecturer at Liverpool University since 2014 and also lectures regularly at veterinary conferences. He is involved in all aspects of equine stud medicine including natural and artificial insemination and embryo transfer breeding methods on all types of horses and ponies. Aside from reproductive work, he is regularly involved in racing, sport horse and pleasure horse veterinary care. Charles’s areas of interest include youngstock management and preventive medicine on the studfarm (particularly worm control), treatment of the ‘subfertile’ mare, fetal sexing and the management of hormone-related behavioural problems in competition horses.