About Us

Meet the owner, our goal, and the story.

Dr. Rick Beck

Dr. Beck grew up on a working cattle ranch in Deer Lodge, Montana, where his passion for animals and veterinary medicine took root. He began his academic journey in pre-veterinary studies at Montana State University in Bozeman, then earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

After graduating, Dr. Beck relocated to California in search of greener pastures—literally. Drawn by the favorable climate for year-round equine reproduction, he settled in Brawley in 1973. Later, he established Winners Circle Equine Clinic on a 10-acre property in Hemet, which evolved into InFoal,Inc. In 2006, after years of embryo transfer, InFoal, Inc, became one of only two private practices in the US to pioneer the cutting edge procedure of ICSI.

Following 35 successful years in California, Dr. Beck made the move to Millsap, Texas in July 2021, continuing his dedication to advancing equine reproductive care and again breaking ground with the newest technique of conventional Invitro Fertilization (cIVF).

Meet the Team

The Goal - Is The Foal

Modern advances in equine reproduction have made it possible to create foals from mares and stallions that might not otherwise be able to produce. With tools like Artificial Insemination (AI), Embryo Transfer (ET), Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) and soon conventional Invitro Fertilization (cIVF), we can give horse owners more options than ever before. Our focus is simple: making foals. Through ICSI, we can help mares that can no longer carry a pregnancy, recover eggs from mares that have recently passed, and even use just one sperm cell to create a foal from the remaining semen of a valuable stallion.

Evolution of Assisted Equine Reproduction

In the early 1970s researchers at CSU began unraveling the mysteries of equine reproduction. First the dreams of artificial insemination, which would allow you to breed hundreds of mares in a single season were realized. This advance was followed by the difficult problem of freezing horse semen, which took a long time as there were a lot of differences in stallions survivability.

These were exciting times at CSU while I was a student - from 1969 thru 1973. Work was just begining on embryo transfer and I was hooked!! It was hard to believe you could breed one mare, take the embryo out and put it in another mare which would actually produce the foal!!!

Originally, after a very complicated flush, the recovered embryo was transferred surgically thru the flank of the recipient mare into the horn of the uterus.

In 2006, I went to one of the first seminars on ICSI -

the even more amazing process of injecting one sperm into an egg which had been aspirated from a mares follicle and then culturing it into an embryo, then transferring it into a recipient mare, now a nonsurgical procedure.

I was determined I could learn to do this! I built my first lab, bought a used inverted microscope with the micromanipulators and spent the next two years beating my head against the wall until in 2008 we had our first pregnancy which was born in 2009 - we named him Adam.

All this time I was in California, but as the horse business moved to Texas, so did I. We have expanded 3 times, and now in our beautiful lab, we are trying to unravel the amazing world of cIVF.