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Reminders:
IMPORTANT MEETING
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Meadowlands Paddock
5:30 p.m.
Future of NJ Racing!
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HOGAN’S CLINIC OPENS ON FAIR WINDS FARMCREAM RIDGE, NJ – May 16, 2008 -- Dr. Patty Hogan was looking to build an equine clinic in central New Jersey and the Mullen family – Ed and his son, Mark – were mulling over what to do with their former stallion barn at Fair Winds Farm in the Upper Freehold Township community of Cream Ridge.
In what was a splendid synergy of events, the Mullens renovated the barn and created Hogan Equine Clinic, which was designed and now leased by their very happy neighbor.
Hogan and her husband, standardbred horseman Ed Lohmeyer, live across Red Valley Road from the 600-acre Fair Winds on their own 38-acre farm.
Most days, Hogan takes the walk to her clinic accompanied by a pair of dogs, a giant black Lab named Harley and a golden retriever named Rock. So far the 25 stalls at the clinic have been filled to capacity every day.
It has been non-stop work for Hogan, five technicians and a secretary since the facility began handling patients on April 15. An open house on April 21 drew more than 200 attendees.
“[Ed Mullen] had the vision and Mark made it happen,” she said. “They’ve been excellent to me. I couldn’t ask for better partners. We’ve known each other for 10 years.”
The clinic features one surgery room, two recovery stalls and occupies 8,800 square feet.
“It was the breeding shed so I kept the hay loft upstairs and redid that,” she explained. “It’s a huge observation room that looks over the surgery room with a big screen television up there which coordinates with my scope towers so the client can see what I’m doing.”
Patricia M. Hogan, VMD, ACVS earned her veterinarian degree from the University of Pennsylvania, interned at the famed Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, KY before her surgical residency at Texas A&M. She is board-certified with the American College of Veterinary Surgeons.
She grew up in Edison, NJ and returned to the Garden State, working for 11 years at the New Jersey Equine Clinic in Clarksburg.
She achieved considerable fame for her connection to the treatment and recovery of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Smarty Jones in 2004. Hogan, who testified before a congressional subcommittee in 2006 in support of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, was honored earlier this year with the Spirit of the Horse Award from the Equine Science Center at Rutgers University.
Although her work load is split evenly between thoroughbreds and standardbreds, she feels the trotters and pacers are “the most amazing equine athletes.
“I find them to be the most remarkable and versatile horses, incredibly durable,” she observed. “They train harder than any other breed that I know of. But they can do it. And they can do anything else. They can race 300 starts and then go jump some fences.”
This summer, Hogan will be enjoying the short commute and the busy routine at Hogan Equine Clinic, but in September she will start splitting her schedule. She will be spending three days a week in New Jersey and three days a week working at a new facility being built near Belmont Park on Long Island, the 27,000 square foot, $17 million Ruffian Equine Medical Center.
“It is really an exciting opportunity in New York,” she explained. “Half my caseload is from Belmont Park. I’m excited to be part of it.”
There is, however, the matter of the 85-mile commute to the Ruffian Equine Medical Center that might seem a bit daunting but Hogan’s husband found a solution. Lohmeyer recently obtained a license to fly a helicopter and the couple has purchased a chopper.
-Submitted by Carol Hodes for SBOANJ
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