Trinity's Queen Elizabeth - Lizzy
Trinity's Queen Elizabeth is the daughter of FC AFC High Tech CEO (2xNAFC 2xCNAFC FC Ebonstar Lean Mac HoF x NAFC FC Hattie McBunn HoF) and Tierra's Cocoa Christy who was our very first chocolate lab (Granddaughter of NFC AFC Storm's Riptide Star - Only Chocolate NFC). Christy was purchased for my daughter Tierra for her 9th birthday, we had planned on breeding Christy with FC AFC Cuda's Blue Ryder MH but Christy would have had to be shipped from OH to California and when she came into heat her progesterone spiked over night and so we didn't have time to ship her there or have sperm shipped here so we drove through the night to meet up with Gates. I already owned another female SHR Trinity's Sassy Senorita of Riverwood JH that is a daughter of Gates and was incredibly impressed with her and her perfect disposition. I had planned on breeding Christy with Gates on her next heat so we bumped him up in line and drove to North Carolina. I unfortunately had to spay Christy after the birth of Lizzy's litter and we never did get that breeding with Ryder completed so here we are planning on breeding the daughter of the dog he missed out on with his sperm after his death for her first breeding, sort of ironic. Lizzy is littermate to our Trinity's Trial By Fire - Journey and lives with some friends of ours. They had always wanted to buy one of our pups but never had the money to spend so when I asked them if they would like to have Lizzy to hunt with and to live at their house they were over the moon. Lizzy was taken to raise by their black lab "Biscuit" and they have lived in perfect harmony ever since. Lizzy is an incredibly intelligent dog with a superb personality and she is described by her foster parents as the smartest dog they have ever met. Lizzy is sweet and loving and loves hunting every chance she gets, she does water fowl and upland hunting every season and is a great hunting companion, a very natural retriever. Her other parents have grandchildren that are young and a couple great grand kids that are even younger. Lizzy treats the kids like they were hers and is the gentlest soul.
Lizzy's Sire is FC AFC High Tech CEO (Gates) – Gates was a Finalist in the ’03 & ‘05 National Open and qualified for the National Open in ‘01, 03, 04, 05 & 06 and the National Amateur in ’03 ,’04, ’05 & ‘06. Gates was injured and did not compete in most of 2002; his injury was so extensive that most people wondered if he would ever compete again. He not only has come back to style but also has surpassed his previous performance. Gates is the product of the breeding of two Hall of Fame Retrievers, both of whom are NAFC titled. Sire is 2XNAFC 2XCNAFC FC AFC Ebonstar Lean Mac WCI HoF and Dam is NAFC FC Hattie McBunn HoF. A List of Littermates for Gates would include 4 Field Champion – Amateur Field Champion Labs and 1 Field Champion, 1 bitch that was Qualified All-Age and died at an early age of accidental cause, all of whom are great dogs. They are: FC AFC Tiger McBunn, FC AFC Dr. Feelgood VI, FC AFC Whitie IV, FC AFC M and M's Buns of Steel & FC Seven Come Eleven V.
