Taylor Made Farm

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Taylor Made Farm
TypeThoroughbred breeding and sales
Founded1976
FounderDuncan Taylor & Mike Shannon
Headquarters
Nicholasville, Kentucky
Key people
Duncan Taylor: founder, President, CEO

Ben Taylor: Vice President of Taylor Made Stallions

Contents

Frank Taylor: Vice President of Boarding Operations

Pat Payne: Vice President of Sales

Mark Taylor: Vice President of Marketing and Public Sales Operations

Taylor Made Farm is a 1,600-acre Thoroughbred racehorse breeding farm in Jessamine County, Kentucky, [1] and is a leading consignor of Thoroughbred horses. [2] [3] The farm is owned and operated by four brothers, Duncan, Ben, Frank and Mark Taylor with their long time family friend and business associate Pat Payne becoming a partner in 2008. [2] [4]

History

Taylor Made was founded in 1976 by then-19-year-old Duncan Taylor and his business partner Mike Shannon as a broodmare boarding farm, and initially was located on a parcel of leased land on Gainesway Farm. [1] [5] Gainesway Farm used Taylor Made as a place to board mares that traveled to Kentucky to be bred. [2] The Taylor brothers, Duncan, Ben, Frank, and Mark grew up living and working on Gainesway Farm with their father, Joe Taylor, the farm's manager, [5] and also learned about the horse business from their grandfather. [1]

In 1978, the business broadened to include sales when they consigned horses at the Keeneland Sales. [5] By 2012, Taylor Made was consigning approximately 10% of the Keeneland's September yearling sale−about 345 yearlings out of the entire sales catalog of 3,604. [3]

As Taylor Made grew, the horses were kept on leased property and barns throughout Central Kentucky. They expanded into sales consignments and then built their own facility on a 120-acre piece of property owned by Joe Taylor on Union Mill Road in Nicholasville, Kentucky. [1] [5]

Operation

Frank Taylor, 2016 Frank Taylor at Los Alamitos Dec 2016 30.jpg
Frank Taylor, 2016

Taylor Made is divided into two separate companies: Taylor Made Sales Agency, and Taylor Made Stallions Inc. Taylor Made Sales Agency is in involved with public and private sales as well as a boarding facility. [5] The brothers of the Taylor family have been the sole the owners of the corporation since 1986. [1]

Taylor Made is headed by Duncan Taylor, the president and CEO of the family-owned farm. Ben Taylor is the vice president of the company's Taylor Made Stallions division. [6] The farm now is 1,600 acres today. [1]

Taylor Made Sales Agency

Taylor Made Sales Agency is a leading consignor of Thoroughbred horses. [2]

For fourteenth time since 2001, Taylor Made was the leading consignor at the 2016 January Horse of All Ages Keeneland Sales auction [7] with 92 horses sold for $4,359,500. [8]

Boarding operations

Taylor Made Farm has 22 barns with 429 stalls. The farm has three round pens, five exercise walkers and 107 paddocks. [9] Frank Taylor is the Vice President of boarding operations. [10]

Taylor Made stallions

As of January 2022, stallions standing at Taylor Made include:

Stallions previously standing at Taylor Made included:

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