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Taylor Ridge Ranches
Moab, Utah 

            Hi, my name is Jick Taylor. I run Taylor Ridge ranches. My parents are Joe Taylor and Karla Taylor. I was raised on a cattle and horse ranch near Moab, Utah.

On May 12, 1973, my dad was at a quarter horse show in Price, Utah. My mom was in the hospital waiting for my arrival. Dad's friends told him he needed to be in Moab, but dad had to win one more all around with NATTAT (a mare who still has a daughter in the breeding program of Taylor Ridge Ranches). This was kind of the pattern of our family life. Horses and horse shows were real important to my parents. I am going to turn over the chronology of the stallions of this family to my dad, Joe Taylor. I forget some of them.

Hello folks, this is Joe Taylor. I am going to chronologically list the stallions used on our family ranch;

The first stallion was BUSHMAN. He was by a son of Plaudit and out of a daughter of Prince/Coke T. Next came SPANISH RULER, an AQHA champion son of Spanish Nick out of a daughter of Skippers King. Next we used SKIPS MAJOR, a 3/4 brother to Skippers King. SIX MASTERS was by Sheiks Review out of Six Skips. He was a world champion sire. The next horse was the best individual and the greatest sire; SURENUFFSKIPPA was by Skippa Lark out of Skips Tabu. He was a very consistent sire in both quality and disposition. 

We then got SKIP N CHOICE, who was by Skip N Go out of a daughter of Skip On. PREMIUM SKIP was an   AQHA Champion. He arrived well known and with a big following. He never really adjusted to life on a rural ranch. But he gave us some nice babies. Several stallions by PREMIUM SKIP were born here. SKIPPO WRACK was here one season, gave us some fancy fillies. Next came SKIP AND BID. He was line bred to Skippers King, 16 hands tall. We have several daughters by him just now starting to produce in our broodmare band.

Along in here someplace we started to use JUSTENUFF SKIPPA, a stallion we raised. His sire is SURENUFFSKIPPA, his dam the great superior halter mare SPANISH CORDETTE. He has always gotten limited use due to being so closely related to most of our mares.

MEXICALI PRINCESS, the mare who won the all-around saddle at the first Old Fred-Skipper W Show is his first daughter, we have several more daughters that are  at the top end of the young mares of our breeding program.

Probably the long suit of the “Justen” foals is their riding ability and cow sense. The ropers and ranchers really like them. Also, STRIP TO SKIP, a doublebred son placed at the 2004 AQHA world. History will show him to be a breeding horse.

   Next we acquired SKIPPA STAINTS from the Wiescamp family. Amid rumors of him being sterile, we tried him anyway. He had long been a favorite of mine on the stallion alley at the Wiescamp ranch. He was a lot of work to breed, but fertile. We have kept several fillies and 3 young stallions by him for our program, but decided he could get more foals closer to a horse vet. He now resides with Shane Truby of Bayfield, CO. Shane has a fine set of mares, befitting the quality of SKIPPA STAINTS. We retained a breeding interest.

Next we had the good fortune of becoming the caretaker of SKIPPERS ZANE, the legend horse. Tragically we lost him in an accident out with the mares in June of 2005. We expect around 10 foals in 2006. In late spring of 2004 we found SKIPS WESTERN at Jim Sinkbeil’s ranch. He had the size and pedigree we had been searching for. Plus his dam was one of the best mares to come from Alamosa. His first foals have just arrived and are real nice. In late winter of 2005 I was delivering mares to Jim Snow in Texas. He had a stallion there I had seen before, but never looked at. His name is SOCIAL SHEM. I guess you could say it was love at third sight, because I had seen him twice before, and had overlooked him. He is by SKIPPERS SHEM out of SOCIAL BARBA, the last mare shown by HJ Wiescamp. We are real excited about this stallion. We got about half the mares bred to him.

Our broodmares are a mix of the above stallions’ pedigrees. Come by and see our mix and match program. We have full sisters, full cousins, always trying to get them both prettier and more athletic.

Our website is taylorcreekranch.com. We will try to keep it updated better in the future.