AKC Gazette Gallery • Tauskey’s Champions, Part 2

More dog-show champions photographed by Rudolph Tauskey
Temperamental, eccentric, and uniquely talented, Rudolph Tauskey became the king of canine photography in the 1920s and reigned supreme for nearly six decades. Generations of owners and handlers made the pilgrimage to his Tudor “castle” in New Jersey to have their top champions photographed by the master. In the process, Tauskey became as famous in the dog world as the champions he immortalized.
Tauskey died on July 30, 1979. Soon after, his children donated the old man’s entire archive of canine negatives to the AKC. Sadly, most of these were destroyed in a flood during the mid-’80s. Those that survive are lovingly preserved the AKC Gazette photo collection. About Tauskey’s death, Wendell Sammet said it best: “When Rudy passed, so did an important chapter in the history of dogs.” Photos in order shown:
COVER Ch. Tilo Plush was one of a long line of champion Miniature Poodles breeder-owned by Laura J. Niles. “A small jet-black, he is proving to be an excellent sire,” noted the November 1955 Gazette.
1. Collie Ch. Braegate Model of Bellhaven, c. 1943, was a British import and top winner for Florence B. Ilch’s Bellhaven Kennels at Red Bank, New Jersey. Milo Denlinger, in his 1949 book “The Complete Collie,” called Bellhaven the “premier kennel of Collies in the world today.
2. Scottish Terrier Ch. Blanart Barrister, c. 1954, was a top sire out of Blanche Reeg’s Blanart Kennels.
3. Imported Standard Poodle Ch. Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen was the 1935 Westminster Best in Show winner and foundation sire of Hayes Blake Hoyt’s legendary Blakeen Kennels, of Katona, New York.
4. Black and Tan Coonhound Ch. Karlena’s Musical Rattler, an all-time coonhound legend, won his breed at Westminster for a record nine consecutive years in the 1950s and ’60s.
5. 1944: Manchester Terrier Ch. Canyon Crest’s Stewardess, out of Mr. and Mrs. William Bagshaw’s Canyon Crest Kennels, was owned by the revered all-rounder judge William Kendrick, who was among the most knowledgeable terrier fanciers of his day.
6. Miriam Breed and her famous Barmere Boxers of the 1930s. Mrs. Breed’s kennel was built around the stud-dog import Int. Ch. Sigurd von Dom of Barmere, LOM, a legend in his own time and often referred to as the father of American Boxers. The Barmere line “revolutionized Boxer breeding here and abroad,” Marion Mangrum wrote in the 1950 Who’s Who in Boxers.
7. Cocker Spaniel Ch. My Own Brucie was breeder-owner-handled by Herman E. Mellenthin. The Gazette’s Arthur Frederick Jones called Brucie “the finest achievement of the man who probably has contributed more than any other to the advancement of breeding in America.” Brucie went Best in Show at Westminster in 1940 and ’41, and was Best American-Bred at the Garden for three straight years.
8. Am./Eng. Ch. Waterbeck Watermark was the first Dandie Dinmont Terrier to win a U.S. Best in Show (Staten Island KC, 1953, under judge Hayes Blake Hoyt).
9. Chow Chow Ch. Tally Ho Black Image of Storm, 1939 Chow Chow Club of America national specialty winner, was bred by Mrs. L.W. Bonney at her famous Tally-Ho Kennels in Oyster Bay, Long Island.
10. Doberman Pinscher Ch. Ellie V Franzhof, Best of Breed at her breed’s 1940 national-specialty show, was bred by Dr. Adeline Francis and owned by Charlotte Bergen.
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