Blog Post

The name Rinconvet is inspired by my home beach, Rincon Point, in Carpinteria, California.  As a young girl, I rode my horse on this beach every day.  It is my favorite place on Earth. My parents still live in the house on the hill above Rincon where I grew up, and I visit as often as possible.  We had just enough land for me to keep my horses, as well as my 4-H and FFA animals.  I raised lambs, swine, and one dairy heifer, competing in both the Santa Barbara and Ventura County Fairs annually.  My childhood county horse show experience segued into A circuit hunter-jumper competition as a teenager when I got the opportunity to fund my riding as a working student for a top local trainer.  That was the end of owning horses for me, but I have kept horses in my life – and have kept the horse fever at bay – via my employment.  All my jobs have been horse jobs, whether I was a polo groom, trail guide on a guest ranch, exercise rider for racehorses, and ultimately, a barn nurse in the horse barn at U.C. Davis before finally becoming an equine veterinarian.  

After graduation from U.C. Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, I moved back to Southern California to be closer to family. I completed a one-year internship for a Thoroughbred racetrack practice, alternating between Santa Anita, Hollywood Park, Del Mar, and Pomona Racetracks.  Living in Santa Monica enabled me to go to the beach daily, though I traveled throughout Los Angeles day and night due to the rigorous schedule of my mobile equine practice.  Part of my work had me doing import/export quarantine work at LAX, getting horses on and off airplanes at all hours of the day and night.