Welcome to our website! Laura Judd and Tom Aiello, the owners of Tinstar Labradors, train and run our dogs in AKC Hunt Tests, an occasional AKC Field Trial, and to be first rate hunting partners and great companions. We do not breed our Labrador Retrievers just to sell puppies or collect stud fees. We occassionally have a litter available that we offer for sale, or a started gun dog. If we don't, we might know of someone to put you in touch with who does!
We do this for the love of the sport and the breed as a hobby, not a business.
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Caerleon's Water Mark MH, MNH - "Sierra", our first labrador qualified and was invited to participate in the Master Nationals in both 2002 and 2003. This is quite an honor as only 350 dogs (approximately) are invited annually. Sierra is trained and handled by Laura Judd, as an amateur. Sierra and Laura received qualifying scores both times - in Bend, Oregon 2002 and in Thomasville, Georgia 2003. Because of this the Master National Retriever Club now honors Sierra as a "MNH - Master National Hunter".
From Sierra's first litter we kept a male, Tinstar's Marshall Dillon MH - "Dillon", has attained his Master Hunter Title and qualified to participate in the 2006 Master Nationals. Dillon is available for stud and already has a several litters on the ground. His progeny are proving to be very handsome, birdy pups, some of whom are now competing themselves!
Our second breeding of Sierra was to FC AFC Yellowstone's TNT Explosion - "Nitro". The puppies went to new homes quickly. Reports from their new owners indicate this was an exceptional litter, so much so, we repeated the breeding in 2004. We have placed those pups and several are competing already in Hunt Tests and Field Trials. For photos, click on our photo page. "Tin Star's Nitrous Blast MH" , (Shelby) attained her Master Hunter Title and ran in the 2006 Master Nationals. Her full sister, from our last repeat breeding, "Tin Star's High Flyer" (Flyer) also has her Master title, as does the littermate we kept, "Tin Star's Armed and Dangerous MH."
