Pandorum named Dam of Distinction

Pandorum has earned the honor of being named an AQHA Dam of Distinction. 

The award recognizes the accomplishments of racing broodmares. To qualify for the award, a mare must meet one or more of the following criteria:

• Dams that produced two or more individual AQHA racing champions.
• Dams that produced at least three individual Grade 1 stakes winners.
• Dams that produced at least two foals ranked in the top 10 money earners of any particular year, as of December 31 of that year, and two Grade 1 stakes winners.
• Dams that produced at least three foals that were in the top 10 money earners of any particular year, as of December 31 of that year.
• When the award was created, a grandfather clause also allowed mares that had produced at least three individual stakes winners prior to 1983, and those wins were the equivalent of a Grade 1-quality race, to be accepted.

Pandorum is a 2009 brown mare bred by AQHA Hall of Fame member Joe Kirk Fulton and owned by Fulton Quien Sabe Ranch. 

She is by Tres Seis and out of the Strawfly Special mare Daring Diversion, and was herself a graded stakes winner in her race career.

As a broodmare, she has gotten three Grade 1 winners to qualify for the award. 

In total, she has produced nine starters from 15 foals with progeny earnings of $2,865,257.

Her newest Grade 1 winner that completed her award requirements is Hott Temptation, who won the Millie Vessels Memorial Handicap (G1) on September 13.

She is also the dam of 2020 Rainbow Derby (G1) winner Hotsempting, and champion and multiple Grade 1-winner Hotstepper. 

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