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Daisy Sonfield
Sire SonfieldDam Raisy D
Our tradition
Two Generations. Over Four Decades.
Richwood Morgans began in 1961, when Marjorie and Richard Hazelwood traveled to the Eagle Ranch and met Ramona Brave. That visit brought them home with the old mare Daisy Sonfield, once part of the Roland Hill herd, the first horse to carry the Richwood name.
Not long after, they found Farceur Morgan at W.T. Carter's, leasing him and a band of mares before eventually buying the stallion from the Carter estate. From Ramona Brave and Daisy Sonfield came Richwood Morgan (1963), the first stallion bred in name and raised by Richwood Morgans, and the horse that gave the ranch its foundation.
Generations later, that same foundation still runs through every horse in our program. We have never chased trends. We breed the traditional family Morgan, a horse built for real work, with the mind and the heart to do it, carrying bloodlines we know and trust because we raised them ourselves.
Where it began
The Foundation Horses
The horses this ranch was built on. Their pedigrees run through every Richwood Morgan today.
Ramona Brave
Sire Otto McClureDam Jean Mary
Farceur Morgan
Sire Kings River MorganDam Royce's Falcon
Richwood Morgan
Sire Ramona BraveDam Daisy Sonfield
Our principles
What We Breed For
Tradition
Working western lines, bred the way they always have been, for soundness, mind, and purpose, not fashion.
Integrity
Honest pedigrees, honest horses, and honest answers to every question a buyer asks us.
Heritage
Bloodlines we can trace back to the ranch's first horses, kept alive on purpose, one generation at a time.
Family
A ranch run by family, for family: ours, and the families who bring a Richwood Morgan home.
A Family Legacy Continues
Today, Mary Hazelwood carries the Richwood name forward, breeding and raising traditional family Morgans of working western lines just as it began, with the same commitment to doing right by the breed, the horses, and everyone who becomes part of the Richwood story.
Bred with purpose. Built on tradition. Committed to integrity. Focused on the future.
From the ranch
Stories of the Richwood Morgans
January 11, 2020
The Beginning with Farceur Morgan
The Hazelwood’s involvement with Farceur Morgan came as a result of a lifelong desire to raise horses, seeing the two yearling colts, Ramona Brave and Ramona Warrior at the Eagle Ranch in Ramona California. As a result of some serious soul searching, Richard and Marjorie set a goal of raising Morgan horses and doing so […]
December 18, 2019
Dick Sellman and his Morgans
by A. Hartung – as printed in The Western Horseman, Nov. 1950 SOMETIME PRIOR to 1880, the late Richard Sellman left his birthplace in the state of Maryland and drifted southwest into McCollough county, Texas. Here he acquired a foothold and, being industrious, prospered. In the early days of the present century, when the writer […]
December 13, 2019
W.T. Carter influence on Richwood Morgans
My earliest memory of Mr. Carter was traveling from Ramona, Ca to Sanger, Ca in the early 60’s my mom would pack the us up in the car with horse trailer in tow. We would leave at night so that we would sleep & not bug her. I remember waking up going over the grapevine […]