 Taylor retained several shares in the stallion, while other members included Claiborne Farm, Allaire du Pont, Greentree Stud, J. Louis Levesque, Paul Mellon, Spendthrift Farm, Tartan Farm and Alfred G. Vanderbilt.Each share in the syndicate provided an annual breeding right to Northern Dancer, and relatively few other breeding rights were publicly available.As a result of the scarcity of his services and his continued success, Northern Dancer's stud fee rose, slowly at first