Taylor Made Shuffles Management

Taylor Made General Farm Manager Tom Hamm has accepted a position as the farm manager at Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm in Reddick, Florida effective June 1. Hamm will stay on at Taylor Made to help in the transition process through May 31. Hamm started out in the Thoroughbred industry as an assistant trainer to his brother Tim Hamm in 1995 and he joined Taylor Made in 2006 as a divisional yearling manager. He was promoted to general farm manager in 2011.
“My time at Taylor Made was awesome,” Hamm reflected. “If it wasn't for Taylor Made, I wouldn't be in the position that I am right now. I learned a lot and it's like a family here at Taylor Made. I have nothing but good things to say about them, but I just had an opportunity to better myself and my family, so I decided to go that route.”
Replacing Hamm, who also assisted as a yearling farm manager prior to the retirement of John Hall, is Steve Avery, who joined Taylor Made in 2000 as a section broodmare manager before becoming the broodmare manager in 2011.
Logan Payne is assuming the duties of broodmare manager in place of Avery. A graduate of the University of Kentucky, Payne originally joined Taylor Made in 2011 prepping yearlings, before spending eight months in a similar position at Widden Stud in Australia. Back at Taylor Made, he spent three years working as a stallion handler prior to acting as a barn foreman for Todd Pletcher for two meets. In 2016 Payne became a divisional broodmare manager and also helped coordinate their sales consignments.
Caesar Terrazas, a divisional yearling manager for Taylor Made since 2007, will become the new yearling manager. Terrazas started out as a groom in Taylor Made's broodmare division in 1999 before moving to the stallion division in 2000.