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Checking progress after surgery

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Checking progress after surgery

Matamata veterinarian Dan Shaw uses an ultrasound machine to check on the progress of racehorse Xcellent after using a new stem-cell procedure to repair a leg injury. Expensive surgical procedures can be justified on valuable animals such as racehorses.

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Hamish Mavor and Bob Gumbrell, Veterinary services – Urban vets, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19895/checking-progress-after-surgery (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Hamish Mavor and Bob Gumbrell, published 1 March 2009.