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Equestrian Sport Committee

The Equestrian Sports Committee explore the field of equestrian sports (including racing) and identify issues of relevance to equine health and the provision of veterinary care, where indicated to expand and develop these and to provide guidance to the BEVA board on actions required by us on behalf of BEVA members.

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Meet the Committee
Fran James
Committee Chair
Fran James
Committee Chair
Roly Owers
Roly Owers
Roly joined World Horse Welfare as Chief Executive in January 2008. He qualified as a veterinary surgeon from Cambridge University in 1992 and having spent a short time with the Blue Cross, he joined the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, which included a posting as the Veterinary Officer at the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment in London. After the army, he went to work for World Horse Welfare until 2003, when he left to take up the post of Development Director at the Perse School in Cambridge. He returned to World Horse Welfare in 2008. Since then Roly has played an active role on the steering group of the Equine Sector Council for Health and Welfare and established the Equine Disease Coalition, of which he is Chair.
Phil Cramp
Phil Cramp
Phil graduated from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh, in 2005 and went on to do an internship at the Equine Medical Center of Ocala, Florida and then an equine surgical residency at Michigan State University. He is a Diplomate of the American and European Colleges of Veterinary Surgeons and is an American, European and RCVS Specialist in Equine Surgery. He has worked at Oaklands Equine Hospital and Rainbow Equine Hospital and is currently a director at Hambleton Equine Clinic, which he set up with two other directors in 2012. He is interested in all aspects of equine surgery, especially upper airway surgery and orthopaedics. He currently sits on BEVA Council, the BHA Veterinary Committee and the ECVS Exam Committee.
Ian Beamish
Ian Beamish
Ian qualified from the RVC in 2006. He completed an internship at NEH in 2008 and then travelled to New Zealand where he worked as a repro and racing vet. In 2010 Ian joined Baker McVeigh in South Africa. In South Africa ian and his wife Laura began a road trip home from the southern to northern-most points in Africa. Ian moved to Chantilly, France in 2012 and returned to Newmarket in 2013 before joining the Baker McVeigh Lambourn practice in 2017. Ian joined BEVA as a Council member in 2021. He enjoys playing with his kids, watching football and riding his bike.
Jo Suthers
Jo Suthers
James Given
BHA Co-opted Member
James Given
BHA Co-opted Member
John McEwen
BEF Co-opted Member
John McEwen
BEF Co-opted Member
Jenny Hall
FEI Co-opted Member
Jenny Hall
FEI Co-opted Member
Eugenio Cillan
ARVS Rep
Eugenio Cillan
ARVS Rep
Ed Shaw
ARVS Rep
Ed Shaw
ARVS Rep