Veterinarian Program

Dr. Bennett is a private practice owner with a special interest in equine and bovine sports medicine, emergency, and surgery. She credits much of her success as a practitioner to the training she received at Rood & Riddle where she learned from the equine surgeons responsible for creating the many of the orthopedic and soft tissue procedures that form the foundation of modern horse surgery. From them, she learned that the secret to achieving excellence within the field is a rare and priceless quality that cannot be replicated or replaced: the courage to stand for something even if it means standing alone. 

Inspired by this knowledge, Dr. Bennett opened Pocket Aces Veterinary Services in the ranch lands of South Dakota and began her dream of finding a way to offer elite level surgical care to both bucking horses and bucking bulls.

In 2022, she developed a way to use bucking chutes to anesthetize her patients. This allows her to provide both routine and advanced care to animals previously considered too dangerous towork with.

In addition to her passion for roughstock, Dr. Bennett analyzes biochemical ratios found within a patient’s blood and uses this information to better characterize surgical lesions. The ultimate goal of this research is to eventually reverse these ratios in a manner that will both increase pre-operative prognosis and speed post operative healing time.

Dr. Bennett uses similar ratios to investigate cardiac ischemia in boxer dogs. Her work with the breed has taught her the importance of the human animal bond and the life and death value of research. It has also given her the courage to spend her life fighting to push the limits of modern medicine even when it means standing alone.

Dr Farmer completed her veterinary degree in 2006 from Ross University and then completed a 6 month neonatal internship at Marion du Pont Scott Hospital in Leesburg, Va. She moved to Florida to practice and in 2010 opened Equine Performance Veterinary Practice. She owned and runs a full service equine practice specializing in Sport horses, Rehabilitation and Alternative medicine. In her free time, she spends time riding Jumpers and Dressage and being active with her kids and husband.

Dr. Garrett’s primary focus is Equine Reproduction and Lameness while providing the gold standard in regenerative medicine. He provides patients veterinary service with a unique perspective with more than 40 years of owning, breeding, and competing horses.

He is one of the first to offer Polyacrylamide gel (Arthramid Vet) and Alpha2Eq in North America. In addition to providing Equine veterinary services, Dr. Garrett manages Riverside Animal Hospital, The Animal Hospital of Fayetteville, and Windsor Farm Equine. Some of his affiliations include American Association of Equine Practitioners, American Veterinary medical Association, American Road Horse and Pony association, American Saddlebred Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, ISELP (The International Society of Equine Locomotor Pathology), Certified Veterinary Spinal Manipulation Therapy.

Outside of work, Dr. Garrett continues to be involved with horses either on the farm or attending horse shows as a veterinarian and spectator.