The Thoroughbred House owners and Breeders Affiliation will honor nationwide award winners at its awards dinner Sept. 7 at Fasig-Tipton in Lexington. 5 nationwide winners have been introduced forward of time, and BloodHorse Each day is providing profiles of those winners all through the week.
In the present day we profile Frank Taylor, winner of the Dr. J. David Richardson Business Service Award.
This yr’s Thoroughbred House owners and Breeders Affiliation’s Dr. J. David Richardson Business Service Award acknowledges Frank Taylor, the founding father of the trailblazing nonprofit group Secure Restoration.Â
Taylor, the director of recent enterprise growth at his household’s Taylor Made Farm close to Nicholasville, Ky., launched this system in 2021 with 10 recovering addicts. Three and a half years later, the group has expanded and grown. It presently homes 52 males in services throughout the Bluegrass State.
“I actually suppose this system may very well be everywhere in the nation and even everywhere in the world in 10 years,” Taylor mentioned. “We have got the mannequin just about perfected at this level. My imaginative and prescient is that we might get a dormitory on the again of one among these racetracks quickly.”
Secure Restoration was impressed by Taylor’s mentor, Rob Perez, who runs DV8 Kitchen in downtown Lexington. Impressed by the employees in Perez’s kitchen, all recovering addicts, Taylor carried out Secure Restoration with the assistance of Perez. The nationally accredited 501(c)(3) program, which takes in males from throughout the nation, requires individuals to stick to a strict military-like regime on their quest for sobriety. Taylor defined that the lads should get up at 5 a.m. daily, attend an AA assembly, work from 7 a.m.-4 p.m. on the farm or be taught their classes on the College of Horsemanship, after which attend one other AA assembly upon returning to the dormitory.
“It is a huge key to have purposeful work for them and educate them the talents the place they’ve a shot to maneuver ahead,” Taylor mentioned. “These guys come right here, they get uncovered to horses, and a few of them have by no means touched a horse earlier than. So that they get that have, however then we begin speaking to them of their first 30 days about what route they might wish to go.”
After finishing the Secure Restoration program, most of the males discover employment with the group’s community of companions.Â
“The primary two years, we employed everybody who got here out of this system at Taylor Made. After which we received totally staffed,” Taylor mentioned. “We did not attain out to different farms, different farms reached out to us and mentioned they have been on the lookout for assist. So we constructed these strategic alliances with about 10 main farms, veterinary clinics, and transportation companies within the business. We have now individuals at 10 completely different locations now. And we’re nonetheless taking up extra strategic companions.”
Secure Restoration boasts a sobriety price 3 times the nationwide common for comparable applications, and the group has reunited 802 members of the family over a 3 1/2-year span.Â
“I really feel assured we have saved some lives,” Taylor mentioned. “It has been good for the business, it has been good for them, it has been nice for society. You are turning nontaxpayers into taxpayers. You are giving individuals hope and goal and that is what they want. It is very efficient and it is wonderful how good it really works. It amazes me that somebody hasn’t been doing this earlier.”
