— ABOUT DR. GEOFF TUCKER —

Dr. Tucker has been with horses professionally since 1973, the year Secretariat won the Triple Crown. He worked full time on a Thoroughbred breeding and training farm in Bedford Hills, NY. He started as a "manure engineer" and worked his way up to assistant farm manager. There were up to 20 horses in training and up to 100 mares foaling during the breeding season and about 10 stallions standing at stud. As the foaling manager, Dr. Tucker attended all foalings and assisted deliveries either before the vet arrived or with the help of the vet. He was also responsible for all the preventive medicine on the farm.

There he met a girl, a "barn girl," and they were married in 1977. Together, Dr. Tucker and his wife went to Ithaca, New York to finish college at Cornell University. He continued at the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine (aka "Cornell") and graduated in 1984.

On graduation day, Dr. Tucker drove to his first horse call in the new equine vet practice he started from scratch. He drove past his classmates celebrating in a tent that spring day. "I've always known where I wanted to be," says Dr. Tucker.

His practice was bought by an employee in 1996. In 1998, Dr. Tucker started the dental practice. He was trained by his mentor, Dr Jack Loew, to do teeth the old fashioned, traditional way. He developed his skills in 1983 at Rhinebeck Equine in New York the summer before his final year in vet school. He's always believed that dentistry was an important part of veterinary medicine.

The dental practice has grown exponentially because horsemen know that the way teeth are done today is against all horsemanship. Dr. Tucker says, "I enjoy the interaction I have with each horse and the benefit they get from having their teeth done well."