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Taylor
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In an interview, Taylor recalled that his first direct experience with racehorses was around age 8.
“All my life my father worked with trotting horses,” he said. His father sent him to breed his favorite mare to a $100 stallion, “a lot to us, that’s for sure. He sent me ‘cause he didn’t want my mother to know about it. He told me, don't you say a word to your mother.”
Taylor recalled that the resulting $600 sales weanling “probably saved the farm.”
Though Taylor dropped out of high school, he share-cropped and worked with horses. Saddlebreds were his first love; fleet, racing Standardbreds soon captured his fancy.
Married to the former Mary Emily Marshall in 1946, the growing family — six boys and two girls — lived near Frankfort, but Thylor soon found himself mired in debt following a few bad years of farming.
Horses again rescued, and renewed, Taylor. Trainer Gene Sears offered Taylor a job at Roosevelt Raceway in New York. With Mary Emily’s
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