The Mary Anne McPhail Equine Performance Center is an 18,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility for clinical evaluation and research of equine performance. The center has an indoor arena, lameness runway, force plates, high-speed treadmill and neuromuscular diagnostic laboratory used to uncover the basis for lameness and poor performance. With state of the art diagnostic and imaging equipment in the adjacent equine hospital, the facility and world class clinicians keep equine athletes on track for peak performance.
About the Center
The McPhail Equine Center is dedicated to the health and performance of dressage and sport horses.
The Center houses lameness and poor performance evaluation areas, lecture facilities, a dressage arena, and a research suite for the Mary Anne McPhail dressage chair.
The facility was opened with generous support in 2000.
Lameness Facilities
To optimally diagnose lameness, the McPhail Center offers areas to examine horses moving directly away and toward the clinician using a firm surface, areas to lunge horses on a firm surface, and an arena for evaluation while riding. The variety of surfaces help to pinpoint changes in the horse’s gait and identify which limbs are sore.
Exercise Areas
Left: The indoor lunging area with firm footing for lameness evaluation. Right: The exercise area for riding or lunging on soft surfaces.
Gait Analysis
In the gait analysis area, force plates hidden within the floor pair with high-speed cameras to capture exceptional detail.
Examination Rooms
The McPhail Center provides spacious examination areas with and without stocks.
Equine Stabling
Pictured below: Housing via spacious stalls for six horses in the Center. Additional stalls are available in an attached barn.
Dressage Ring
The dressage ring is a beautiful indoor arena with state-of-the-art footing. The space is used for patient evaluations, research, and dressage clinics that support the dressage community.
McPhail Suite
The McPhail Suite provides interactive office space for the McPhail Chair and current and visiting equine researchers.
The Vaupel Room
This lecture room overlooks the dressage arena and is used for student education, veterinary continuing education, and horse owner education.
Thank you, generous supporters of the McPhail Equine Performance Center!
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., Dr. Harold "Gus" & Mrs. Jeanne Braeutigam, Dr. Harold & Mrs. Anne Brown, Capewell Horsenails, Inc. & St. Croix Forge, Inc., Mr. Scott & Mrs. Barb Edwards, Drs. Dale & Irene Gaide, Mr. Denny & Mrs. Pam Gilstad, Maxwell & LeAnn Goodwin, Mr. Michael Herceg & Ms. Joan A. Kelley, Dr. Russ & Mrs. Ruth Mawby, Michigan Horse Council, Shoeman Road Family Farm, Dr. & Mrs. Henry Vaupel