Keith Latson

Keith Latson

Keith Latson, DVM, DACVS, is a board-certified equine surgeon specializing in performance horses and Thoroughbred racehorses.

Dr. Keith Latson is a board-certified equine surgeon, co-founder of FullBucket Health, and has served as the AAEP's On Call veterinarian for NBC Sports' Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks broadcasts, succeeding Larry Bramlage, who served as the AAEP's On Call spokesperson for Triple Crown events since 1993.

Credentials

  • DVM, Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine (2001); board certified in surgery by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons (2006)
  • Recipient of the Equine Student Clinical Proficiency Award from Texas A&M and the James M. Wilson Award for Outstanding Research by a graduate student or resident from the Center for Equine Health at UC Davis
  • Past recipient of the AAEP's Good Works for Horses Award; member of the AAEP Racing Committee
  • AAEP On Call Veterinarian, Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks

Areas of Expertise

Equine surgery, performance horse and racehorse care, sports medicine, post-surgical recovery, and equine nutrition research.

About Keith

Keith was born at Fort Hood, Texas, the son of a career military officer and a healthcare educator. He spent his childhood moving every two to three years from one corner of the United States to another, with a few years of European and Hawaiian living scattered in.

Keith works as a private surgical and performance equine consultant, focusing on yearling to racing-age Thoroughbreds. He has also provided professional and surgical services for nonprofit Thoroughbred retirement and retraining organizations. He has published and presented several peer-reviewed scientific papers on equine surgery and is actively involved in equine nutrition research with Texas A&M and Montana State universities.

His Work With
Keith co-founded FullBucket after volunteering veterinary care for working horses in rural Central America. Back home in surgical practice, he kept seeing the same problem. The surgery would go well, but recovery brought digestive upset, and there wasn't a product on the market built to support the gut through it. So Dr. Keith Latson and Dr. Rob Franklin built one. Together they formulate and review every FullBucket product, and that clinical experience is still the foundation of the line today.