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Bunty Lawless Stakes

Bunty Lawless Stakes
Restricted Stakes race
Location Woodbine Racetrack
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Inaugurated 1975
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website woodbineentertainment.com
Race information
Distance 1 mile (8.0 furlongs)
Surface Turf
Track Left-handed
Qualification Three-year-olds & up
(Ontario Sire Stakes)
Weight Assigned
Purse $96,563 (2015)

The Bunty Lawless Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. An Ontario Sire Stakes, it is a race for horses age three and older. Run near the end of October, it is contested over a distance of 1 mile (8 furlongs) on turf and currently carries a purse of $96,563.

Inaugurated in 1975, it is named in honor of Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Bunty Lawless (1935–1956) who, in a 1951 poll conducted by Canadian Press, was voted "Canadian Horse of the Half Century."

In 2006 the race was run at a distance of 8 furlongs and 70 yards on Polytrack.

Speed record: (Through 1998, Woodbine times were recorded in fifths of a second. Since 1999 they are in hundredths of a second)

Most wins:

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