Bargteheide, Germany, October 3 to 5, 2025

In cooperation with Pferdeklinik Bargteheide

Participants will see Philippe Benoit, Elizabeth Davidson and Edwin Enzerink working up lameness cases on day 1 of the course. The instructors will discuss their approaches, findings, diagnosis and treatment options as they present all cases together on day 2 with Sue Dyson moderating. Day 3 of the course will be devoted to performing further examinations on selected cases and to improve skills.

More information on the program will be posted as soon as it becomes available!

Philippe Benoit

graduated from Alfort Veterinary School in 1989 Paris, France. He did a Master in Exercise Physiology from 1990 to 1992 and was Team veterinarian of the French Jumping Team from 1992 to 1999, and in 2000 for the teams of Saudi Arabia and Brazil. He established a clinic next to Versailles (France) in 1993 and monitors since 2012 constantly show jumpers of clients in USA. His main interests are orthopedics, shoeing and back problems of horses. He became Diplomate of the American College of Sport Medicine and Rehabilitation in 2014 and is now living in Cardiff (CA – USA) practicing as a consultant with local veterinarians and a large show jumping facility.

Elizabeth Davidson

is an Associate Professor of Sports Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, New Bolton Center. She received her DVM from Michigan State University in 1992, and completed an equine internship at Pilchuck Veterinary Hospital in Snohomish, Washington and a surgical residency training at Penn’s New Bolton Center. She is Diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. Elizabeth has special interest and expertise in sport horse lameness, the “hard to diagnose” horse, and those horses affected with neck and back pain.

Sue Dyson

graduated from Cambridge University, United Kingdom. She was Head of Clinical Orthopaedics at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, England for many years until 2019 and is now an independent consultant. She has a passion for the investigation of poorperformance using a holistic approach to the horse, tack, rider triad to try to maximize potential. Sue has also ridden at top British level in Eventing and Show Jumping and has trained horses that have competed at the Olympics and World Championships.

Edwin Enzerink

graduated in 1996 as a veterinarian from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Until 2000 he worked as a surgeon at the Department of Equine Sciences of the University Utrecht. Since 2000 he is qualified as Dutch Equine Surgeon Specialist, and since 2001 Edwin is boarded as a European Specialist Veterinary Surgeon (Dipl. ECVS). Since 2000 Edwin works at the Veterinary Centre in Someren, Netherlands. His special interests are arthroscopy and colic surgery. Besides his work as a veterinary surgeon, Edwin is specialized in orthopedic problems in show jumping and dressage horses. Since 2018 Edwin is Team veterinarian of Team Netherlands Dressage.