Matson T.

Tullis began his career with horses working in racing stables where he spent two years as Assistant Trainer to Philip Hobbs. In 1990, he came home to run his father’s non-thoroughbred stud at Twemlows Hall.

In 1993 he left for a study tour of New Zealand where he visited 17 studs and racing stables. Whilst traveling around New Zealand he completed a course on the Artificial Insemination (AI) of horses. At this point, he returned home and Twemlows Hall Stud Farm began practicing AI for the first time.

In 1996 the stud had grown on such a large scale that at this point Tullis started his own business Stallion AI Services Ltd, a Stallion Semen Collection Centre running from Twemlows Hall. From the outset, he had a contract with Genus to carry out their collecting of semen prior to freezing. This soon developed into taking stallions in for freezing, chilling and fresh insemination. In 1997 he undertook further training at the University of Utrecht in Holland.

During the 18 years that stallion AI Services has been running Tullis has frozen semen from some of the world's greatest stallions. He has frozen semen from more than 700 stallions and carried out over 10,000 collections.

In 2008, Tullis set up Equine Reproduction Supplies which is now the UK’s largest distributor of equine artificial insemination equipment and in 2010 was given the exclusive rights to distribute the world-renowned “minitube” products in the UK.

In 2011 Tullis Matson received the Marsh Christian Award for Conservation in Genetic Bio-Diversity. He has been given the award for the technological advances he has brought to the field of equine semen freezing which has enabled some rare breeds to be collected from and frozen successfully for the first time. The award, run in conjunction with the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, recognizes significant technical, scientific, and practical contributions to the field of genetic bio-diversity. The Prince of Wales is among the award’s previous winners.

In his spare time, Tullis loves nothing more than throwing himself out of planes, having done over 1600 skydives!!!!