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2010 LIVING HORSE HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE
BUNNY LAKE

(Nominated as Racemare)
p,2, 1:54 ; 3, 1:51s ; 4,1:49.4; 5,1:50.3s; 6, 1:49s
($2,843,476) Bay Mare, 1998
(Precious Bunny - Lake Nona - Abercrombie)

Bunny Lake earned more than $2.8 million during her racing career, retiring the second-richest pacing mare of all time. In her first year of racing, Bunny Lake won the La Paloma followed by all six New York Sire Stakes in which she appeared, including the final. She ended her freshman year with $281,255 in earnings.

In 2001, as a 3-year-old, Bunny Lake was named 2001 Horse of the Year by the U.S. Harness Writers' Association; the second pacing filly to capture the award. She was also voted Pacer of the Year and 3-Year-Old Filly Pacer. Bunny Lake won 19 of 21 starts (18 in a row) and never finished worse than second. . She duplicated her previous year’s effort winning every NYSS she

raced in, including the final. She was also victorious in the Jim Lynch Pace elimination and final, the Historic Ladyship, the Tarport Hap, the Mistletoe Shalee elimination and final, the Glen Garnsey Memorial, the Breeders Crown elimination and final, the Lady Maud and the Courageous Lady. She finished the year with $1,146,219 in total winnings and a record of 1:51s .

In 2002, Bunny Lake won the Classic Distaff final in a stakes and track record of 1:58 for 11/16 miles, and established a 1:51.2 track record for 4-year-old pacing mares in the Vernon Downs 50th Anniversary Pace. She won $400,049 that year and lowered her record to 1:49.4. As a five-year-old Bunny Lake won 10 out of 24 starts, including the Roses Are Red final and a match race against rival mare Worldly Beauty, and earned $531,134. The following year, Bunny Lake set the world record (1:50.2) for an older pacing mare in the Classic Distaff. Later that same season she set her own lifetime mark and stakes record of 1:49s in back-to-back victories in the Roses Are Red Stakes. With earnings of $484,819 Bunny Lake was the 2004 leading moneywinning pacing mare. At retirement she ranked 8th leading moneywinning pacer of all time.

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