Boston, MA - More than $95,000 was earned at the 2011 AMHA/WMF Stallion Service Auction, which took place as part of the AMHA Annual Convention in February. The event took place at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston with Bill Carrington serving as auctioneer and David "Tuffy" Owens reading the pedigrees.

The overall top-winning bid went to Dan Kelley of Victory Lane Morgans for his bid of $10,000 for the cover of the November/December issue of The Morgan Horse magazine. Bill and Sammi Hazen generously donated an egg to multi world champion Kim's Bellegante, which was purchased by Bob Kellert for $8,000. The top stallion's service was for reigning World Champion Stallion and World Park Saddle Amateur Champion, Dragonsmeade Icon, which went to Kevin Schengrund for $7,500.

The monies collected from this auction will be distributed to the AMHA Marketing Program, World Morgan Futurity, AMHA regional shows, and the AMHA Show Grant Program.

"I would like to thank the Morgan community for the responses to our requests for stallions, sponsorships, and advertisement in our stallion service publication," said Barb Rudicel, auction co-chair. "Because of their generosity, the whole Morgan community benefits from this auction! I would like to say a special thank you to the Hazens for offering an egg from Kim's Bellegante, which was something new and different in the auction. Thank you stallion owners, thank you booklet advertisers, and thank you sponsors. It is because of you, we can now give back to the Morgan community!"

"We are so thankful for the generosity of the Morgan community," said C. A. "Tony" Lee III, auction co-chair. "Year after year our Morgan stallion owners donate their horses' services, regardless of the state of the economy, all for the betterment of the breed and the community. We can't thank them enough."

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