Optimal Body Condition for Health & Wellbeing

SPEAKERS:

Lizzie Drury

Lizzie has an Honours degree in Animal Science, a Master’s Degree in Equine Nutrition and is one of only small number of Registered Equine Nutritionists in the UK. She has worked for Saracen Horse Feeds for 21 years and provides technical advice and nutritional support to our equine clients in the UK, Europe and, in particular, the Middle East. Combined with this, she is a regular contributor to regional and national equine publications, lecturing at colleges and universities.

Lizzie’s area of expertise is in the performance horse, with a particular interest in the feeding and management of endurance horses, which has led to more time in the Middle East supporting some of the largest endurance clients. Some of her other clients include Olympic Gold Medallist, Charlotte Dujardin, and Team Gold Medallist, Carl Hester, as well as International Show Jumpers competing in the Nations Cup Team, top Event riders and Western and Reining clients. However, she is also equally happy helping and supporting amateur and everyday horse owners to ensure that they get the best out of their horses through correct feeding.

During her time at Saracen Horse Feeds, Lizzie has developed new rations, most notably, Essential Balancer, Shape Up and Recovery Mash and more recently a new endurance feed, which will be supporting many performance horses this season in the Middle East. Lizzie is known for being able to bring the science and research element of equine nutrition to the everyday rider and professional to enable them to apply the knowledge in an easy and practical way.

Dr. Katie Young

Dr. Young received her B.S. degree from Missouri State University in Biology, minoring in Animal Science and Chemistry, and earned her Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University in equine nutrition and exercise physiology. Her graduate research focused on mineral balance in resting and exercising horses, and the effects of fat-added diets on sweat production in working horses.

Dr. Young was a member of the TAMU Equine Science faculty for several years during and following her tenure as a graduate student. Since leaving academia, Dr. Young has spent 25 years in the feed industry as an equine nutritionist, horse feed program manager, and business consultant for a large regional feed company, and then as a technical equine nutritionist for a large national feed company in the USA. She has extensive experience in horse feed formulation, quality control and production, customer service and communication, sales and sales training, marketing, and regulatory and labelling requirements for equine feed. She was highly involved in every aspect of product development and launches, from ideation to formulation and production, to package design and marketing, sales training, and distribution.

Dr. Young has been a professional trainer and riding instructor for more than 40 years, and continues to do so in the Kansas City area. She specializes in eventing and hunter/jumpers.

“Kentucky Equine Research works with dozens of feed manufacturers worldwide to ensure that the latest findings in equine nutrition science are utilized in real-world feeding programs. We have worked with Saracen Horse Feeds in the U.K. for 20 years. Saracen is an excellent example of our partnership program at its best – we collaborate on studies, bring expertise in formulation, and provide custom software and technical service for their excellent team of nutrition advisors. We are excited to showcase the science behind this program through this series of webinars.”

Joe Pagan founder of Kentucky Equine Research