• KENNEL:

  St. Aubrey-elsdon

Owned his first Peke in 1943, exhibited first dog in 1944, bred first litter in 1945. Fifty years later he is at top of his breed & won pedigree award as top Canadian Breeder of Ch. for two years in succession, in 1992 & 1993. Started judging in Canada in 1954. In 1967 made his home in England for 7 years and continued exhibiting & judging. In partnership with Nigel Aubrey-Jones had leading kennel in U.K., owning in one year the top winning Peke and the top winning kennel. He is licensed for some 30 breeds in U.K. Returning to Canada in 70's he became all breed judge and has judged at many important shows here and worldwide. Has awarded BIS four times at British all breed Ch. Shows - Windsor, Richmond, Scottish K.C., and South Wales K. Assoc. has also awarded BIS at Melbourne Royal & Milan Int. Ch. show in Italy. The St. Aubrey-Elsdon kennel has created & broken more records than any other Peke kennel. They imported & later sold top winning Peke of all time "AmCan Ch. Chik E'Sun of Caversham", BIS at Westminster in 1960. He was the top winning dog with 128 BIS's. In all Mr. Taylor has bred close to 150 Ch. Pekes. With his judging of the Toy Group at Westminster it will probably mark the first time that one person has judged both the Toy Groups at Crufts & Westminster. Other breeds he has been involved with are all varieties of Poodles, Brussels Griffons, Shih Tzus, Yorkshire Terriers, Pomeranians, Smooth Fox Terriers & Welsh Corgis. In partnership with Mr. Aubrey-Jones they imported and showed two BIS winning Terriers at Montgomery County.