Taylor Ranch Arabians

02/05/2024

If you could spend a day with any horse, past or present, who would it be?

11/07/2023

Love our fall mountains

05/24/2022

Finished off a great Utah Valley Arabian Horse Show over the weekend. Thank you to all our clients for trusting us with your horses

05/23/2022

Way to go Poseidon, J.T. Keller and Joy Buck! Region 1 Reserve Champion Open Western.

TR Poseidon and J.T. go Reserve Champion in the Region 1 western pleasure open! Congratulations owner Joy Buck!!

05/21/2022

Great job riders and horses yesterday at the Utah Valley Show. Looking forward to Championship Day today

05/20/2022

Had a great start to the Utah Valley Show yesterday. Looking forward to our classes today. If you are at the show come say hi!

03/29/2022

We had a fun Saturday with new riders and new horses. Getting those miles in.

03/27/2022

First shows are the best

03/17/2022

Super sporty 4 yr old gelding available for purchase. Erimos KGS (Calypso OS X TR Sahara by Aladdinn)
Started under saddle. Scottsdale signature top ten auction c**t and reserve champion 3 yr old gelding. Priced to sell

03/08/2022

Love the history of this great breed

International Women's Day, and a woman with a filly that changed Arabian horse breeding globally forever.

*Rifala (Skowronek x Rissla by Berk), six generations of Crabbet Park breeding, being handled by Baroness Wentworth, Judith (Wilfrid Scawen Blunt x Lady Anne Blunt), photo taken in the early 1920's at a horse show in England, photographer unknown, legacy immeasurable.

We'll start with *Rifala, maybe not as solid in the body as her full sister, Reyna, who was exported to Spain for the Duke of Veragua, but Lady Wentworth's pick of the two and the one she chose to show.

Among her many titles won in Great Britain, *Rifala won the Royal Show Gold Medal as a weanling in 1922, the First Prize at Horsham as a yearling in 1923 and the Sussex County Show Silver Cup the same year. She would re-enter the show world, after a 10 year hiatus and a change in continent, to be named 1933 National Champion Mare at the Nationals held in Nashville, under the ownership of her second owner, the Selby Stud.

What can one say about *Rifala? She founded a dynasty of breeding stallions through her sons; Image (by *Mirage) at the Selby Stud, Rifage (by *Mirage) at the Van Vleet Stud, Phantom (in-bred by her own son Image) at Gainey Arabians in Minnesota and that father/daughter mating that resulted in the "sterile stallion", *Raffles (Skowronek x *Rifala by Skowronek) who was brought back to fertility by Jimmie and Thelma Dean and changed the course of breeding Arabians for several decades here in the US.

*Rifala produced one daughter, Ragala by *Mirage, but her influence is still felt today through hundreds and hundreds of descendants (some not even owned by Dick Hasbrook), and *Rifala's legacy is guaranteed for generations to come.

Now, onto Lady Judith Wentworth. What can one say, other then she has influenced Arabian horse breeding on every continent and virtually in every country that breeds Arabian horses today. There are only two breeding groups, the straight Egyptian group and the Davenports, who are immune from her influence. She brought Skowronek (Ibrahim x Jaskolka by Rymnik) to the Rodania, Dajania, Sobha, Bint Helwa and Makbula mare lines at Crabbet Park. To frame this into a perspective we all can appreciate, there would be no Michalow, Tersk, Yeguada Militar, Janow, and the list goes on and on.

No Cal-Poly, no Lasma, no Varian, no Mulawa, no Haras Mei Lua, no Om El Arab, no Halsdon. In 2022 terms, no Scottsdale Arabian Show Junior, Senior or Yearling Champions would have been crowned that weren't directly influenced by Lady Judith Wentworth.

What can one say about Judith Wentworth that hasn't already been said? She was quirky, brilliant, stubborn, sneaky, impeccable at judging horse flesh and impeccable at making breeding decisions. She was as complicated as she was brilliant. She could have taught at "Master Class" in horse marketing, long before that was even a term.

As a business woman, she would do (and did) whatever necessary to keep the doors open Crabbet Park, through good times and bad. Smart, savvy and sophisticated, few business leaders today could hold a candle to Lady Judith Wentworth. So, on International Women's Day, my hat’s off to your legacy, Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-Lytton and the legacy of yours that continues to thrive and prosper today.

Jim Robbins for We LOVE Arabian Horses, celebrating women around the world today and every day and remembering that one special moment I sat at Lady Wentworth's writing desk, a treasured memory to this day.

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03/01/2022

Congratulations to The Lant family on their purchase of ERA Lil Wayne. We are excited to have him in the barn and are looking forward to the show season! Thank you to Julie Daniel for your assistance with this sale.

02/24/2022

Jessie and Bellatore Top Ten Hunter Pleasure Amateur Owner to Ride out of 23!

02/23/2022

We are excited to see Jenny and HK Silver Spirit hit the ring tomorrow in Signature Auction C**ts

02/21/2022

Enaya and Prince Top Ten Arabian Costume this morning. Great job!

02/21/2022

We are super proud of Enaya and Prince. They had a beautiful Country Pleasure class yesterday

02/19/2022

We are so proud of Enaya. She did great today at her first Scottsdale with Prince

02/18/2022

Great start to the show today! Jessie and Bellatore 2nd place in Stallions Amateur owner to handle.

02/10/2022

Can’t wait to see these two hit the ring in Scottsdale! Bellatore and Jessie showing in Hunter Pleasure and Halter

01/16/2022

Big Congratulations to our Competition Team who took some wonderful awards from the Utah Arabian Horse Club High Point Banquet!
We are thankful to have you all as part of our barn family!

12/12/2021

Today we attended the funeral of one of the sweetest, most loving people we have ever known. We were all blessed to have had Kristi in our lives and as part of our barn family. She will be missed dearly. We know that the healing power of God will be there to help her family get through this time and our love and prayers are with them all.

12/01/2021

Super sporty gelding looking for his next adventure. Erimos is scottsdale signature nominated. Was top ten in the auction class and reserve champion 3 yr old gelding. He’s started under saddle and reasonably priced. Pm me for video

11/13/2021

Thank you everyone who came and helped with our barn cleanup today we couldn’t have done it without you!

11/12/2021

We are having a barn clean up day tomorrow starting at 10 am Lunch will be provided. We’d love to have you join us !

11/08/2021

TR Pristeen (Om el Bandeiras x HK Perkata by Muscat).

11/03/2021

Amazing opportunity for the serious breeder!