I used him at the track in Iowa as well. He was an excellent vet , he did surgery on one with chips in an ankle that came out great and worked on everything we had there.
In the last six months I have had him take a bunch of chips out of a knee, extract a 5 inch piece of splint bone that was broken off in a hind leg, and do a tie back surgery. Getting ready to do a laser surgery on a cribber. He is an excellent surgeon and lameness DR, has a very professional staff, his clinic has all the toys and is impeccably clean. I bypass all local vets for anything remotely serious and go there even though it is a 6 hour trip. Very reasonable as well for the care and types of surgeries performed. Even showed me how to clear deleted videos off my iPad :)
Everything he has done for me has been superior and well worth the trip. If it's good or bad news, he lets you know. No BS.
He definitely has a great eye for lameness but I have been 0/2 as far as getting diagnoses on my horses. One I was told had a suspensory injury in the back and I made an appointment to have it ultrasounded. He didn't even ultrasound and told me that the problem was not the suspensory as my horse would be dead lame. I asked why she flexed lame and he just told me all barrel horses would. I don't know if it is because i look a lot younger than I am but I did not feel he truly listened to me. I will say that he has decent prices!
Dr. Brunk
