whom they are concentrating on the show ring at this point. They also have two promising rising three-year-old colts they plan to offer at stud in the near future: Patient Munny (Canturo x Clinton x Darco, bred by Muny Sunk Stables in North Carolina) and Levistoff Z (Levisto Z x Indoctro x Gran- nus), purchased at the 2015 Zangersheide Foal Auction. “We do not have any mares who are strictly broodmares
at this current moment,” explains Taylor. “We typically pull embryos from our show mares and then use recipient mares. We have four to six mares we have used for breeding and have a special weanling filly we are looking forward to breed- ing with in the future, Cereuza Z (Cornado II Z x Heartbreaker x Ramiro Z). She is a maternal half-sister to Jeffrey Welle’s Armani and Cat Tyree’s Corleone.” Stallion handler and groom Martin Flores has been at the
farm for over six years. Sara March, Katie Curran, Eliot Garcia complete the staff roster at the farm and Taylor says that she is lucky to have such an amazing team who care for all of the horses as if they were their own. Plans are in the works for AliBoo Farm to move to
Montana at some point in the future. The property there has been purchased, but the buildings will have to be constructed from the ground up. In addition, Taylor and her family are considering leasing a show barn, either in the Midwest or in Florida.
Show Ring & Breeding Highlights In 2015 Taylor took Carrasca Z at age five to the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI)/World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) World Young Horse Championships for five-, six- and seven-year-old jumpers hosted by the Zangersheide stud farm and registry in Lanaken, Belgium. They put in two clear jumping rounds at the event and Carrasca Z was approved by the Zangersheide for breed- ing while they were there, the first U.S.-bred stallion to earn that honor. He was also the four-year-old International Jumper Futurity Overall Champion in 2014 and the 2016 Young Jumper Six-Year-Old Champion. In 2017, he qualified
again for the FEI/WBFSH World Young Horse Jumper Championships. She also earned USEF Horse of the Year Young Jumper
accolades with the American-bred Oldenburg mare Role Model (Roc USA x Flying Pidgeon, bred by Nancy Whitehead in Illinois) in 2011 (5-Year-Old Jumpers) and 2012 (6-Year-Old Jumpers). Role Model was named in honor of Taylor when she was going through her surgeries. After Role Model spent time off recovering from an injury at eight years old, Taylor piloted the mare to her first 1.45 meter Grand Prix win when she was nine. They moved up to the 1.50 meter classes and had good placings before Role Model’s injury reoccurred. While she spent some time recuperating, the Taylors flushed several embryos from her. She is now back to work in the Adult Jumper division with AliBoo Farm staffer Katie Curran. “As a competitor, it was always my dream to qualify for
and compete at the World Championships for Young Jump- ers at Zangersheide. My stallion Carrasca Z did that as both a five-year-old and a seven-year-old. This year as a seven-year- old he placed fifth out of around 200 in the second qualifier and thus earned a spot in the finals as he was ranked thirty- second out of 200 and they only take the top 40. He is a very special horse and I have him, along with the seven-year-old mare Cosmea Z who is also quite special. I am hoping the two of them will step up and jump clean in the 1.50 meter classes this year during the Winter Equestrian Festival. These are both young horses I started myself and I am hoping to eventually compete them at the 1.60 meter level with success,” she shares. Taylor also lists selling two weanlings (a Chacco Blue filly and another by Cornet Obolensky) to Ireland and producing an approved breeding stallion out of a mare that they had bred as other highlights of her family’s breeding program so far.
A serious breeder and talented young horse trainer, Taylor stands with Role Model and her filly O Presley Girl ABF (by Presley Boy).
Breeding Philosophy The stallions and mares at AliBoo Farm are not picked just as breeding stock, Taylor explains, but it is also important they are performance horses. The farm’s breeding plan is to produce horses for top sport, so they select their stal- lions and mares by looking not only at their bloodlines and conformation, but also their athletic ability and their perfor- mance attributes. And they also look to see if the horses they are considering for their breeding program have relatives that are competing at the top level. She says that she tries to make the trip to Europe each year to attend the Zanger- sheide stallion inspection and foal auction and to observe top young jumpers showcased there, saying that it is a very educational week. “As not only a breeder, but also a rider, I have to be honest and admit that I look at traits in these horses that I would want to ride and that I feel will bring them success in the long run. Every breeder is going to breed a bit of their ‘own type.’ I like horses who are scopey with a bit of blood, as well as being a bit more of a modern type and not too heavy. I want a horse who is powerful from behind, well-balanced
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