Meet our team of specialists

An accomplished show jumper with a degree in Nutrition, Alexandra complements and enhances the strong technical and practical experience of the SPILLERS advisory team. Based in Willoughby on the Wolds in Leicestershire, Alexandra is responsible for the north of England from Leicestershire up to Scotland.

Alexandra has extensive knowledge of all aspects of equestrianism having been immersed riding and caring for horses and ponies since she was very small. For the past ten years she has been competing with British Show jumping up to Foxhunters level and is currently jumping two horses that she has produced herself; Pageant’s Diamond Girl, a four-year-old Irish Sport Horse that qualified for the British Novice and Discovery Regional Finals in 2011 and Springalong Bracken, a seven-year-old Warmblood mare.

Telephone: 07557 110636

E-mail - Alexandra.ashley@effem-equine.com

If you would like Ali to visit your competition yard to give free feeding advice, weigh your horses or analyse their diets please contact them on 07557 110636. Unfortunately this service is only available to yards with ten or more horses.

David Mathers joined SPILLERS in 1999 having graduated as top student in Enniskillen College with an HND in Equine Studies. As David originally studied human nutrition as part of his Hotel management degree, it was a natural progression to then work within equine nutrition.

A wide variety of his equine experience was gained through working in a number of yards in France, U.S.A., Australia and New Zealand. David enjoys hunting and has evented and ridden at point to points in the past. At present he has a thoroughbred brood mare and a ¾ bred hunter.

Born into the rural community in Leicestershire, Kathy has always been amongst horses. From the age of 10, she rode Show Ponies and Mountain and Moorland Ponies at National level in the summer and hunted with the Quorn in the winter.

By the time she went to University she had already gained the NPS Stud Assistant’s Certificate and indeed rode for the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. She graduated in 1983 with a BSc. (Hons) in Agriculture having spent 6 months of her third year working on sheep and cattle stations (where they also happened to either breed Thoroughbreds or play Polo) in New South Wales, Australia.

Her first employment was on a Thoroughbred stud in the south of England but after a year she was offered a job working for a prestigious Newmarket bloodstock agency. Here she worked as a bloodstock agent travelling all over the World buying and selling elite Thoroughbreds. After three years she joined the International Racing Bureau as Trainers Service Executive assisting trainers to place and run their horses abroad. It was this company that assisted in the setting up and initial running of the Dubai World Cup.

In 1994 she went back to University to study for an MSc. in Equine Science. On completion, she lectured to third year degree level in equine science, behaviour, exercise physiology, breeding and racing at Writtle College and latterly Oxford Brookes University.

Kathy joined SPILLERS in August 2001 as a Thoroughbred Nutritionist, a position that involves advising many of the top racehorse trainers and Thoroughbred breeders in the UK on the nutrition of their charges as well as assisting the technical nutritionists at SPILLERS to develop new products.

Contact details:

Telephone: 07776 248957

E-mail - Katherine.lawson@effem-equine.com

If you would like Kathy to visit your racing yard to give free feeding advice, weigh your horses or analyse their diets please contact them on 07776 248957. Unfortunately this service is only available to yards with ten or more horses.

Telephone: 07776 248961

E-mail - jane.smith@effem-equine.com

If you would like Jane to visit your competition yard to give free feeding advice, weigh your horses or analyse their diets please contact them on 07776248961. Unfortunately this service is only available to yards with ten or more horses.

Telephone: 07919 477794

E-mail - vicky.dolton@effem-equine.com

Telephone: 07776 248970

E-mail - nikki.collins@effem-equine.com

Nikki is currently on maternity leave, for information regarding this area please contact Customer Services on 01908 576202

Telephone: 07795 492757

E-mail - richard.mattock@effem-equine.com

Sarah started riding at the age of 5 with her mum teaching her on a friend’s unbroken Shetland pony! As enjoyable as it was, ‘Honeybun’ had a wilful character which often meant early lessons ended with Sarah sat on the floor! Undeterred she carried on riding any pony offered to her until at the age of 12 she was lucky enough to get her first pony. As a family they have owned several horses and ponies since, and whilst she does not currently have a horse of her own, she often takes to the saddle and ride’s her mum’s horse Cally as much as possible. Cally is now 27 years young and despite taking life at a slightly slower pace is still full of character.

Sarah completed her National Diploma in Horse Management followed by a Foundation Degree in Equine Studies at Shuttleworth College. She then went on to complete her Degree in Equine Science at Writtle College in Essex. She has since had various jobs including working at riding schools, on a show pony stud and for a specialist travel agent selling horse riding holidays. Despite the range of jobs she has had an ever growing passion for equine nutrition since first starting college in 2002.

Maxine completed an equine diploma at Moulton College and then joined Team SPILLERS in 2009 after a mixed range of jobs and employers including working as an Event Groom, Life Insurance and Yacht Building companies. She had her first pony at 8 years old and regularly attended Oakley Hunt West Pony Club. Since then she has owned and competed a variety of horses in various disciplines; Eventing up to Pre Novice and Show jumping up to Newcomers. She also enjoys hunting with the Oakley over the winter season; however her life long ambition is to compete at Badminton!

Cat joined the SPILLERS team in 2008 after working for a horse rug and equipment manufacturer. She started to ride from an early age and her love of horse’s grew from there. This passion for horse’s led her to complete a degree at Writtle Agricultural College in Equine Studies and Business Management. She has worked on a number of yards including a local riding school and a stud farm.