Taylor Made Farm
| Thoroughbred breeding and sales | |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Founder | Duncan Taylor & Mike Shannon |
| Headquarters | Nicholasville, Kentucky |
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Key people
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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 |
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
Taylor Made Farm is a 1,600-acre Thoroughbred racehorse breeding farm in Jessamine County, Kentucky, and is a leading consignor of Thoroughbred horses. 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.
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. Gainesway Farm used Taylor Made as a place to board mares that traveled to Kentucky to be bred. 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, and also learned about the horse business from their grandfather.
In 1978, the business broadened to include sales when they consigned horses at the Keeneland Sales. 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.
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.
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. The brothers of the Taylor family have been the sole the owners of the corporation since 1986.
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. The farm now is 1,600 acres today.
Taylor Made Sales Agency is a leading consignor of Thoroughbred horses.
For fourteenth time since 2001, Taylor Made was the leading consignor at the 2016 January Horse of All Ages Keeneland Sales auction with 92 horses sold for $4,359,500.
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