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Bud Hanson Inducted into Hall of Fame of the American Morgan Horse Association

December 31, 2009

The American Morgan Horse Association has announced its 2009 Award recipients. The late M. A. Bud Hanson of Lunenburg, Ontario has been chosen as an inductee into the Hall of Fame.

The Hall of Fame honour is awarded for long-term contributions, dedication, support, and service to the Morgan horse breed, through activities and education on a local, regional, and national level.

The award presentation will be held at the American Morgan Horse Association annual convention in Lexington, Kentucky in mid February 2010.

Bud joins his son Calvin Hanson who was also inducted into the AMHA Hall of Fame in 2007.

The Hanson family owned the highly successful Big Oak Morgan Horse Farm where they bred, raised, trained, exhibited, and sold top quality registered Morgan horses. Offspring from the farm won and or produced Champions at the world, grand national, international, regional, state, and provincial levels. To-date, Morgan horses generating from the Hanson bloodline have won 16 World Championships, 10 World Reserve Championships, 29 Grand National Championships, and 46 Regional Championships, and these figures rise each year.

In the American Morgan Horse Association, Bud was a member of the Board of Directors 1973-1980, chairman of the Open Competition Awards committee, and Bylaws committee member. In 1977, he was a member of the Horse Show committee of the Grand National & World Championship Morgan Horse Show, the Morgan breed’s premiere horse show.

In Equine Canada, Canada’s national governing body for equestrian sport, he was a member of the Board of Directors, and chairman of the national Morgan Horse Rules committee.

In the Canadian Morgan Horse Association, he was President 1973-1979; chairman of the Horse Show committee 1968-1973; and initial chairman of the national Zonal High Score Award System. He was also the Morgan Horse Breed Director to Canadian Live Stock

Records Corporation.

Bud Hanson passed away November 8, 2009 at age 86, survived by his wife of 60 years Virginia, and son Calvin.

For more information you can view the AMHA website: http://www.morganhorse.com/news_events/

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