Introducing Broodmare Hall of Fame Medallions

Honoring Those Producing Champions

The Morgan Broodmare Hall of Fame was established to address the significance of mares’ contributions to Morgan breeding, to put objective information into the calculations of breeders and buyers and to recognize and enlarge the prestige associated with the great producers of recent generations. This designation is given to mares who have produced a minimum of three offspring that have won a world championship in any division at the Grand National and World Championship Morgan Horse Show® There are currently 85 mares inducted into the Morgan Broodmare Hall of Fame. Many will have noticed the designation of BHOF after the names of these Morgan mares on the pedigree information of many horses in our print and online materials.

AMHA is now awarding greater recognition of these important Morgans. Starting in 2023, the current recorded owner of each mare inducted into the Broodmare Hall of Fame, including past inductees, will receive the beautiful medallion pictured above designed by Maretta Kennedy to be displayed with pride.  We have begun sending mailings to the current recorded owners of these horses to verify their shipping address for the medallion. 

We are proud to honor those mares and those associated with them who have continued to produce champion offspring time and time again. This award will also continue to honor those inducted into the program into the future.

About the Broodmare Hall of Fame

The Broodmare Hall of Fame was originally a project of The Morgan Horse magazine. The magazine was approached by several breeders who advocated on behalf of initiating such a program in our breed as there is in others.   As traditionally fame and fortune belongs to the stallion, there is universal understanding of the importance of the dam line in the equation of genetics.  The TMH staff tabulated those crowned with a world champion title going back to 1973, then researched the dam line of each of those horses.  After two years of research, the results were introduced in the January/February 2019 Breeding Guide.  At the time of its publishing, the team had identified a remarkable 63 mares, with many of these soaring past the high standard of three World Champion offspring.  At the April 2019 meeting of the AMHA Board of Directors, it was voted that the BHOF would be an official program of AMHA, as well as The Morgan Horse magazine. The Registry Committee agreed that BHOF would become a designation on the permanent record of each inductee in the Registry database. To view the list of those that have earned this designation, click HERE.

The AMHA Board of Directors has agreed that titles won in the equitation section will now be entered into a horse’s permanent show record, starting with the 2020 show season (previously those titles accrued to the rider only). The record of a Morgan in an equitation world championship now counts toward its dam’s eligibility for inclusion in the BHOF. An application form is available HERE to have past equitation results submitted toward BHOF status.