Taren was born in 1981 and raised in Kent, England. After going to Holmes Bale Community School in Kent, Taren went, as a sixteen year old, to work full time with the English driver Sara Howe at the Brad Bourne Carriage Driving Center. It is a driving center where they have liveries, give lessons and train driving horses. When Taren was 12 years old his father started to take driving lessons at Brad Bourne. After spending a lot of hours in the stable Taren started to work for Sara Howe at weekends and holidays. When Taren finished school he decided that he wanted to work with driving horses full time.

Taren worked as a groom at Brad Bourne for five months. He went with Sara to the Royal Windsor show, which is one of the biggest international shows in England. At the show Taren received a job offer from the English Four-in-Hand drivers Emily and Peter Bennet. Taren suddenly moved half way across the country to Cheshire, England. He stayed at the Bennets’s for four years and worked there as a barn manager, schooling horses, braking them into the carriage and everything else that involves being a part of the driving sport. Taren’s next job offer was as a groom/assistant trainer at Tucker Johnson’s driving stable in the States, he tried the new job for three months and ended up staying there for one year.

He stayed at the Bennets’s for four years and worked there as a barn manager, schooling horses, braking them into the carriage and everything else that involves being a part of the driving sport. Taren’s next job offer was in the States at Tucker Johnson’s driving stable for one year.

After being back in England for three months Taren received a phone call from Chester’s stable manager Olof, asking if he would consider coming back to warm Florida and work for Team Weber. Taren went back to the States in June 2003, working with all of the horses as a very devoted and hard working member of Team Weber. Taren’s favorite horse in the barn is Palle, whom he looks after extra thoroughly