Company type | Thoroughbred breeding and sales |
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Founded | 1976 |
Founder | Duncan Taylor & Mike Shannon |
Headquarters | Nicholasville, Kentucky |
Key people | Duncan Taylor: founder, President, CEO
Ben Taylor: Vice President of Taylor Made Stallions 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]
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]
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 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]
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]
As of January 2022[update], stallions standing at Taylor Made include:
Stallions previously standing at Taylor Made included: