Stellar Retrievers provides a comprehensive retriever training program for sporting dogs of many breeds. Whether your goal is an obedient companion, finished hunting retriever, a good bird dog, or an AKC Hunt Test Competitor, Stellar Retrievers can tailor a curriculum to your needs. Jack Morris has experience training Labrador Retrievers, and many other sporting breeds.
Professional retriever training. . . for your best friend.
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Stellar Retrievers makes its home just south of Giddings in the heart of Texas retriever training. On 50 acres of groomed dog training property, Jack maintains clean, professional, top notch kennels. He has 18 years of retriever training experience and a proven record of success.
Asta-Blackie Litter-Field Retrievers for Sale
Asta
Blackie
One Little Girl Left...
There is one female Sway/Blackie Puppy left needing a home. Here's a little picture and hopefully video to convince you how cute this one really is! Give Jack a call if you would like to talk about a well bred female.
Six Week old Lab Puppies-TOO CUTE!
Here's a little video that should lower your blood pressure!
And if that isn't enough cute, here's the newest to the line of Stellar Retreivers….drum roll please…RUDY!
Brazosport Hunt Test Fall 2012
Asta owner Wendy Wo
Icey Bill & Judy Davis
Blackie Robert & Molly Rascoe
Bonnie Larmar Jones
River Bruce Moore
Gem Bruce Moore again
Idgie Tim Mahady
Jolie Bob Owens This is Jolie's 1st Master Pass at 20 months old!!!
Master Passes dogs run by Owners
Jazz- owner/handler Lee Telling
Dottie Steve Davis
Master Passes Dogs now trained and handled by owners
Lucky Marty Thompson
Dory Lee Davis
Louise Dede Paterson
Annie Wayne Paterson
Senior Passes
Hoot owner Karen Goff
Belle Mike & Ty Davis
Puppies on the Way!
Blackie x Sway. Both are Master National Retrievers trained by Stellar Retrievers.
CHECK OUT THIS PEDIGREE
Blackie - Lean Mac in second generation of pedigree. Blackie is 8 years old and one of the last Lean Mac sons. When have you seen that in recent years? His mother was a Field Champion with 30 AA points, F/C Cream. "F/C Cream" has 6 Full Brothers/Sister's that are F/C AFC with 100'S of points. Her parents are Honest Abe and Lottie. When have you seen that? Can you guess how expensive Blackie was? He is an awesome performer and an 80 lb house dog with loving personality.
Sway- Lean Mac in 3rd generation of pedigree. Her record and her pedigree speak for its self. She is 65 lbs. She was the youngest dog to pass the 2010 Master National in California at 30 months. She has gone on to Qualify in Maryland in 2011 and Qualified for the 2012 MN. She is an talented hunting / Hunt test dog and a big family pet.
These puppies will be intelligent and very nice dogs. Any good trainer would love to work with. They will have all the drive you want and should be able to be handled by Amateurs at competition level and great pets.
Call Jack for more information.
Click on the thumb of the pedigree to see it larger at Photobucket! 
Blackie
Sway
Headshot of Blackie
It's All Wrapped Up!
Saturday is a cold one at the 2012 Master National
Jack stopped for a snap after the 5th Series with Blacie, Idgie, and Asta!
Here's a little tighter crop of the crew:
Master National 2012 update
Here's a little movie clip of Jack and Asta running a blind:
Jack and Bruce Moore at workers party tues night:
Nancy Neipert won a wine cooler at workers party:
The gang in the gallery, 3rd series,Weds:
@StellarRetrieve Tweeting from the Master National
@StellarRetrieve
That's right folks! Live from the Master National using Apple's iPhone wonder technology, Stellar Retrievers will be keeping you up to date using 140 characters or less per tweet to keep you up to date. Down load a Twitter app and follow Stellar Retrievers and the all the dogs running the Master National using: @StellarRetrieve
Here's a link to our Twitter page:
http://twitter.com/StellarRetrieve
Tejas Retriever Hunt Test
Master passes include:
Lochmar "Bonnie" MH, owned by Lamar Jones. Good to have her back.
Stellar's Dancing in the Moonlight MH... "Starr", owned by Lee and Bill Hanes.
Tioga's "Dottie" Spot On MH, owned by Steve Davis.
Rocky Hill's "Icey" Blue MH, owned by Bill and Judy Davis.
Lone Star Power Stroke "Duke", owned by Mike and Ty Davis (yes, if your last name is "Davis", we will train your dog!!!)
Homestead High Flight "River" MH, owned by Bruce Moore.
High Flight's White Lot a Passion, "Gem", also owned by Bruce.
My Time To Shine, "Asta" MH, owned by the wonderful Wendy Wotasek (lol, guess who's writing this blog!)
The Bee Charmer "Idgie", MH.
Stellar's Black Jack, "Blackie", MH MNH.
10 out of 11 dogs passed this challenging test, judged by Bill Teague and Scotty Maddox. It was a good example of what we may see at the Master Nationals, these dogs are ready!!!!
Senior Passes include :
Lone Star Final "Belle", owned by Mike Davis.
Stellar's Hi Water Madam, "Chloe", owned by Brian Gurrola. This was her SH title, 5 in a row...GREAT JOB!
Congratulations also to our friends Bob Neipert, Rick Greer, and Dede Pattersen on passing their dogs.
Also thanks so much to Marty and Janice Thompson, and Lee and Debbie Telling, for all their hard work at the test and our get together Saturday night.
Our next test to run is the Master Nationals, we are going to try to go back on Twitter for this event. This will keep y'all informed of the action as it is happening. We will text out Twitter address soon.
Teal Season is ON!
Northern Flight Hunting Retriever Association HT in Maine on St. Croix, MN August 25-26th
Northern Flight Hunting Retriever Association HT in Maine on St. Croix, MN
August 25-26th
Picked up Wendy from Duluth airport on Friday and headed to St.Croix. Good to have my sweetie back, missed her and the tailgate lunches.
It was a little warmer than usual, mid 80's but clouds kept it cool. Bob Owens and Doug Lewis joined us on Saturday. Also got to visit with our good friends Jace and Denise Tramontine. Always a fun time!
It was a very successful weekend 10 out of 11 master passes with 1 new master hunter title (Duke). Also 4 out of 5 senior passes, with 1 new senior hunter title (Jolie).
Master Passes
Asta, Idgie, Blackie.
Homestead High Flight "River" owned by Bruce Moore, passed.
Tioga's "Dottie" Spot -on, owned by Steve Davis, passed.
Rocky Hill's "Icey" Blue, owned by Bill and Judy Davis, passed.
Romeo's Sassy "Cassie" owned by Doug Lewis, passed.
Stellar's High Octane "Ethyl" owned by Marty and Janice Thompson, passed.
Stellar's Dancing in the Moonlight "Starr", owned by Lee and Bill Hanes, passed.
Lone Star Power Stroke "Duke", owned by Mike and Ty Davis, passed and received his Master Hunter title! Great job considering Duke is only 23 months old and was out of training for 3 months with a broken leg and then a serious dog bite injury.
Senior Passes (it was a double)
Lone Star Final "Belle", owned by Mike and Ty Davis, got her first pass at only 13 months, good job!
Stellar's Hi-Water Madam, owned by Brian Gurrola, got 2 more passes. She has 1 more to go for her title.
Romeo Takes Jolie, owned by Bob and Mary Ellen Owens, passed and received her Senior Hunter title!
We are loving our new pup "Rio", Stellar's Blue Moon Running In Order, she is extremely smart and loves to work! Wendy is back to spoiling her. Rio doesn't have to stay on the truck all day now that she is back.
The Duluth Retriever Club- Aug 3rd and 4th
It was a beautiful weekend in the 70's and clear skies. I had the good company of Robert Rascoe who came to Ironwood for a 10 day visit and training. We missed his usual travel companions, Lee and Bill Hanes, they couldn't make it this year. Looking forward to seeing them in a month at Alabama Master Nationals. Robert and I had the generous hospitality of Bob and Mary Ellen Owens for great meals and lodging.
Master passes
Robert Rascoe passed Spur and Idgie.
I passed Ray, Duke and Star, (Asta was a scratch do to being in season).
Senior passes (it was a double)
Jolie, owned by Bob Owens, 2 passes.
Running her first test, Stellar's Hi-Water's Madam "Chloe", owned by Brian Gurrola,passed 2.
Jackson's Sonny Jack, owned by Ferrell Jackson, passed 2.
Here are some pictures of Robert (Roscoe P Coaltrain) and Spur!
Central Minnesota Retriever Club
Central Minnesota Retriever Club in Sauk Rapids. It was a successful double master weekend.
Master passes-
Stellar's Dancing in the Moonlight "Starr" owned by Bill and Lee Hanes passed 2 tests with the first pass qualifying her for the 2012 MN. Starr is only 27 months old. Great job!
Tioga's "Dottie" Spot On, owned by Steve Davis, passed both tests, qualifying her also for the 2012 MN. Steve, Dottie, and young dog "Arley", are a welcomed new addition to the Stellar team!!!
Lone Star's Power Stroke "Duke" passed 1 Master Test. This was his first time running Masters.
He had fantastic marks and blinds in the other test but couldn't sit still on the honor. Just a little more work to be done on that and this boy is there!
Stellar's My Time to Shine "Asta" owned by Wendy Wotasek, passed both tests. Another good job considering her normal routine of staying in the house has been interrupted by the new puppy
"Rio" we picked up from John and Karen Blackbird on our way to Michigan.
On a general note, we have added 4 new kennels, have 3 fantastic bird boys up here, and the weather has been cool and great for the dogs training. We look forward to the upcoming visits from all our owners and friends and successfully running these Northern tests this summer.
So here are some pics of Jack with Rio the new pup and a photo showing that yes, retriever trainers can in fact, build things!
Best regards all!
Stellar Retrievers Welcomes Steve Davis to Ironwood
Steve and I had a great time whether we were training, working or fishing.
All work and no play would make Jack a dull boy !!!
Here's a picture on Sunday fishing for small mouth bass with Captain Jake on his Ranger boat in Lake Superior. Now there was a Northern Pike caught on this trip and IN THE BOAT. If you notice there's no picture. I wonder who caught that 24in fish and maybe who we should ask why there's no Picture??
Northern Camp-Back in the Top Ten!
Here are some snaps of the kennels after we got it all put back together! 
7/3 Stellar Retrivers Carries On
I had quite a wake up Monday night at 10:30. The biggest bank of kennels (8) that lays out from East to West and faces to the North was moved 45-50 feet to the North, turned upside down and landed on the dog trailer. Of course we had just replaced that fence with a 6ft one. The opposite side kennels (4) that also run East to West but face South were moved 4ft to the south. The roof of those kennels was blown a 100 yds to the southeast. The other bank of kennels that run from North to South and faces to the East were moved 2ft to the east. That roof was peeled up like a banana from a west wind. Out in the Storm, rain, lighting and thunder Craig Davis came down and helped me get all the dogs accounted for, ALL OKAY.
Tuesday 5am the sun was up and clean up began. With landlords Dave and Craig Davis 3 bird boys Jake, Mike and John we took kennels apart and got them off trailer. With some extra panels and gates( we got from one of Dave's clients ) we were able to salvage and put up 5 runs of the 8, by 3pm. I took off for Duluth to get more runs, Dave went to building supply to get roofing supplies. At 8 pm when I got back roof was on those 5. New roof was on the opposite 4. The roof of the north-south kennels was fixed. All dogs were feed, aired and in the kennels.
4th of July we put up the kennels that I picked up in Duluth. Temporary repaired airing yard fences and mowed the grass. Steve Davis of Dallas came that afternoon to help. I was glad to tell him everything was done for the day.
Thursday we were back to normal training schedule. That afternoon roof was put on new kennels, post holes dug and new airing yard posts set in concrete.
Friday training as normal. That afternoon holes drilled in posts and airing yard gate hung, Tee posts in, with fence strung. Every thing is done.
Here's what the destruction looked like:
6/30-7/1 Minnesota Iron Range Retriever Club
Master Dogs
2 Passes for Starr owned by Bill and Lee Hanes of Winston-Salem, NC
2 Passes for Duke owned by Mike and Ty Davis of Austin, TX
1 Pass for Dottie owned by Steve Davis of Dallas, TX
1 Pass for Asta owned by Wendy Wo in Giddings
Senior Dog
Jolie passed both of her inaugural senior tests and is owned by Bob and Mary Ellen Owens of Duluth, MN
Hopefully Jolie will finish her Senior title at her home club August 3,4,5 The Duluth Retriever Club which is the next test were going to.
The Hanes's and Robert Rascoe are coming up to train and run the event!!!
Good Luck to ALL
Weather Update: ALL DOGS ARE OKAY!
Seems we had a bit of a blow here in Michigan last night. Needless to say from looking at the photograph below, it was a mighty blow and we are busy cleaning up. All that said, all retrievers, yes, all retrievers, are A-OKAY! So I'm back to work and back to training!
Best regards,
Jack
Just a nice time at Tejas...
Tejas Hunt Test Spring 2012
Tejas Hunting Retriever Club test held April 28-29th was fast and furious. We always especially enjoy this one, as it is only 5 miles from the house and this year even had one flight here at the house. So after all the preparation and parties the weekend finished up with a lot of ribbons!
Master Passes
Blackie and Idgie passed, proving just because you are getting older doesn't mean your slowing down.
Stellar's My Time To Shine "Asta" passed, qualifying her for the Master National at 25 months old. She got her MH title at Metro on April 15th at 24 months old.
Watermark's "Torch" of Torrey Pines, owned by Mary Tatum, passed making that 3 passes for her at master level. Good job!
Torg's Beretta "Bailey", owned by Bob Worms passed and titled. Bob and his dad Frank were good company this weekend and yes.. Bob got wet at the ribbon ceremony.
Stellar's Dancing in the Moonlight "Starr", owned by Bill and Lee Hanes titled this weekend at 25 months old. She nailed the 3rd series 3 difficult, cheaty watermarks...perfect! Check out her title ribbon.
Stellar's Hunky "Dory" owned and handled by Lee Davis got her second pass, yeah, good job Lee.
Stellar's Proud "Mary", owned,trained and handled by Bob Neipert ran fantastic to earn her MH and also qualify for the Master Nationals at a young 25 months. We call our girls the "Stellar Sisters" and we are working on their theme song and dance!!!! Bob got buckets of water to cool him off at the ribbon ceremony. Fun!!!!!
Congradulations also to Marty Thompson for passing "Lucky", Bill Teagues for passing "Cozby"and "Cheers", Lamar Jones for passing "Bonnie", Tim Buck for passing "Laurie.
Junior Passes
BIG CONGRATULATIONS for Brook Jackson our junior 8 year old handler, for titling Jackson's "Sonny" Jack this week end after passing a double staked weekend. Brook out shined all the other handlers and Sonny ran 4 perfect series, making it look easy.
Great weekend and great spring season. Thank you to all our clients, friends, bird throwers and workers for being a part of the Stellar Team. We are off to our summer grounds in Ironwood in a month. Check our site for this summers results and updates. Wish you all good health and a cool summer.
Brook and Sunny!
Star's Title Shot!
Asta's Mug…
Bryan College Station and Brazosport Hunt Test March 10-11
Master passes were many.
Rocky Hill's Icey Blue, owned by Bill and Judy Davis, received her MH beautiful Aggie colored ribbon....way to go Icey. Special thanks to Bill and Judy for bringing an awesome lunch of brisket, yum! Here he is:
Stellar's Dancing in the Moonlight "STAR" owned by Lee and Bill Hanes picked up her 1st master pass. 1 for 1 and shining bright.
Stellar's MY Time to Shine "Asta" owned by Wendy Wotasek also got here 1st master pass and gunning for the master national qualification.
Torg's Beretta "Bailey", owned by Bob Worms, did a great job for her first master pass. We have some great young up and comers!
Watermark's "Torch" of Torrey Pines owned by Mary Tatum double staked in senior and
master to come home with 2 ribbons and her first master pass. Wow!
It was also a great week ends for our friends and other Stellar dogs.
Dee Dee Patterson passed Stellar's Southern Exposure "Louise"
Bob Niepert passed Stellar's Proud Mary as well as Gypsy
Nancy Neipert passed Skeeter, good job Nance.
We have decided to form a new pop group called the "Stellar Sisters" and are looking for a theme song and dance to perform to embarrass Jack! Suggestions welcome
Brazosport Retriever Club HT held March 10-11th was one of those crazy weather weekends, rain,rain,rain,lightning,delays and more rain. For those of you that missed it, SMART! But for those of us that attended it proved to be a successful weekend.
Good test and great judges for our flight made the bad weather bearable.
Master passes
Icey, Asta, Star, Torch,and Trix (Mary Tatum's dog), all handled by Jack
Special notice to our guests from Winston-Salem NC:
Robert Rascoe for passing Spur and Blackie
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Lee Hanes (with husband Bill rooting us on) for passing Ray and Idgie. We love when they visit and thank them for all their help in training and around the place.
Also good to see our friend Bruce Moore from Alaska who ran and passed Gem and River.
Go get em this weekend at Waterloo Bruce.
Also passing dogs were the "Usual Suspects" Bob and Nancy Neipert (Mary, Skeeter and Gypsy), Dede Paterson (Louise),Bill Teagues (Cheers and Cozby) and Lee Davis for Stellar's Honky Dory's 1st master pass, great job all.
Senior passes
Lone Star Power Stroke "Duke" owned by Mike Davis earned his 1st senior pass at a young age of 18 months and a few months on the bench due to injuries. This dog has talent and drive, keep your eye on him.
Watermark's "Torch"of Torrey Pines, owned by Mary Tatum double staked again and is accumulating a bucket of ribbons. "
Congradulations to Lee Telling for passing loveable, "Leroy's Voodoo Forest" in seniors, good having him and Debbie up for the weekend.
Thanks again to Bill and Judy Davis for feeding most of the flight with delicious injected and smoked chicken.......so glad he got that new grill for christmas.
Come join us at Waterloo this weekend!
Last Chance Duck Hunt!
Motley Crew Goes Duck Hunting
Although dog training is the usual routine at Stellar Retrievers, once in a while, the crew gets out with the dogs and works over a spread on the real thing. Doug Bishop hostd a hunt on the Colorado river a few weeks ago for Jack, Chase (8 years old), Cowan, John Blackburn, Dave Davis and a few of the LaGrange boys. The retriever in the pictures is Sway MH, owned by Doug Bishop and trained by Jack. Cowan took these photos and I just had to share!
Competitive Retrievers for SALE!
Both Dogs are SOLD!!!!!!!!!
I am helping a friend sell two well trained Field Trial dogs. They are not washouts. The owner is just reducing the number of players on its team so to speak. Here’s the scoop on these two great dogs:
CK'S SILVER BELLS-POSSUM - " POSSUM "
BLK MALE
DOB 01/05/06
FC HAWKEYES RED, WHITE AND BLUE- "BANNER" - CAREER POINTS 76
X
FC/AFC RUBIE BEGONIA - CAREER POINTS 132
" POSSUM " HAS TWO OPEN 2ND'S AND NUMEROUS JAMS
EYES CLEAR
HIPS EXCELLENT
EIC CLEAR
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CK'S MISS ROSE - " ROSE "
BLK FEMALE
DOB 10/05/06
FC HAWKEYES RED, WHITE AND BLUE- " BANNER "- 76 PTS.
X
FC/AFC RUBIE BEGONIA - 132 PTS
" ROSE " HAS OPEN 1ST AND TWO 4THS AND NUMEROUS JAMS
EYES CLEAR
HIPS EXCELLENT
EIC CLEAR
Brazosport Retriever Club 12/3-4/11 Brazosport Retriever Club 12/3-4/11
Congrats in the Master to: Idgie, Blackie, Jazz and Stellar's Angelena Jolie for all passing. With the completion of the test Sway is Qualified for the 2012 Master National in Alabama. Jazz is owned by Lee and Debbie Telling and was handled by Lee.
We want to also give a Big CONGRATULATIONS to Stellar's Southern Exposure,MH who completed her Master Title. Owned by Wayne and Dede Paterson. Louise is trained and handled by Dede.
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Congrats also to Stellar's Proud Mary for her 1st attempt and success in the Master level at 20 months old. She is owned and trained by Bob and Nancy Niepart, handled by Bob
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Congrats to Mary Tatum for both her dogs titles.
Senior:
Watermark's Working Girl, SH "Trix" owned by Mary passed and received her Senior Hunter Title.
Junior - Watermark's Torch of Torry Pines, JH also owned by Mary completed both JR"S for her Junior Hunter Title
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Palmetto Retriever Club in South Carolina 12/2,3,4/11
Congrats to our North Carolina Friends and there dogs. Stellar's Sunny Ray owned by Bill and Lee Hanes, handled by Lee, and Candlewood's Spur of the Moment owned by Robert and Molly Rascoe, handled by Robert. This Qualified both Ray and Spur for the big dance in 2012 in Alabama as well. Way to go!!!
Photos from MN Training
A talented photographer named Karen has posted some photos from MN training. Check them out!:
Karen's Photo Site
Tweets from the Master National
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@StellarRetrieve
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Big News from Texas
It has been a top secret project this summer, but it is time for the news to get out! The Texas home of Stellar Retrievers has been pumping its tanks over the last three months. The well went in just before the crew went North in June and slowly, ever so slowly, the tanks have been filling up! We have water where most in Texas don't to train retrieves. So as the weather is turning unfriendly up in Michigan, we are set to do big water work in Texas when we get home in the next week or two. Here are shots of the before and after pumping!
