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encouragement, Taylor made his way north, working up to assistant trainer and learning the racing industry, as he put it, from the inside out.
Upon return to Kentucky a year later, Taylor answered an ad in the Lexington HeraldLeader for an assistant farm manager’s job. That was November 1951. Taylor’s relationship with Clarence, and, later, John, Gaines of Gainesway Farm flourished, becoming one of Thoroughbred racing’s leading stud farms.
Tbgether, John Gaines and Thylor worked to perfect the “Mare’s Lights Program,” an innovative industry practice now in common use to bring mares into estrous early in the spring, and improve stallion management to decrease covers.
When Taylor “retired” in 1990, he joined sons Duncan, Frank, Ben and Mark at their Taylor Made Farm, then strictly a sales agency. With the
Eatriarch’s input, Taylor Made as expanded to include a roster of more than a dozen stallions in addition to sales, foaling and layup divisions.
“It is a fascinating, absorbing life,” Taylor wrote in his “Complete Guide to Breeding and Raising Racehorses.” “It’s what drove me the whole way.”
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