The SPILLERS® Thoroughbred Team

Kathy Lawson BSc (Hons) MSc - Thoroughbred Nutritionist (North)

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 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.

She still keeps an active interest in the competition horse world as she has her own horse which she competes at weekends during the summer and hunts with the Fernie in the winter.