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{{Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
{{Short description|Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}

{{Infobox racehorse
| horsename = Bunty Lawless
| horsename = Bunty Lawless
| image =
| image = Bunty Lawless.tif
| caption =
| caption = Racehorse Bunty Lawless, 29 June 1939
| sire = Ladder
| sire = Ladder
| grandsire = [[Ladkin]]
| grandsire = [[Ladkin]]
| dam = Mintwina
| dam = Mintwina
| damsire = Mint Briar
| damsire = Mint Briar
| sex = [[Stallion (horse)|Stallion]]
| sex = [[Stallion (horse)|Stallion]]
| foaled = 1935
| foaled = 1935
| country = [[Canada]]
| country = [[Canada]]
| colour = [[Bay (horse)|Bay]]
| colour = [[Bay (horse)|Bay]]
| breeder = [[William F. Morrissey]]
| breeder = William F. Morrissey
| owner = William Morrissey
| owner = William Morrissey
| trainer = [[Jack Anderson (trainer)|Jack Anderson]]<br>[[Gordon J. McCann|Pete McCann]] (age 6)
| trainer = Jack Anderson<br>[[Gordon J. McCann|Pete McCann]] (age 6)
| record = 47: 19-15-3
| record = 47: 19-15-3
| earnings = $34,379<ref?http://www.pedigreequery.com/bunty+lawless Bunty Lawliss' pedigree and racing stats</ref>
| earnings = $34,379<ref>http://www.pedigreequery.com/bunty+lawless Bunty Lawliss' pedigree and racing stats</ref>
| race = [[Clarendon Stakes|Clarendon Plate]] (1937)<br>[[Queen's Plate|King's Plate]] (1938)<br>[[Canadian International Stakes|Canadian Championship Stakes]] (1938, 1941)
| race = [[Clarendon Stakes|Clarendon Plate]] (1937)<br>Bennington Handicap (1938)<br>[[Canadian International Stakes|Canadian Championship Stakes]] (1938, 1941)<p>'''[[Canadian Classic Races|Canadian Classic Race]] wins:'''<br />[[King's Plate]] (1938)</p>
| awards =
| awards =
| honours = [[Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame]] (1976)<br>Voted "Canadian Horse of the Half Century"<br>[[Bunty Lawless Stakes]] at [[Woodbine Racetrack]]
| honours = [[Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame]] (1976)<br>Voted "Canadian Horse of the Half Century"<br>[[Bunty Lawless Stakes]] at [[Woodbine Racetrack]]
| updated=
| updated =
}}
}}
'''Bunty Lawless''' (1935–1956) was a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Thoroughbred]] [[horse racing|racehorse]] who in 1951 was voted Canada's "Horse of the Half-Century".
'''Bunty Lawless''' (1935–1956) was a Canadian [[Thoroughbred]] [[horse racing|racehorse]] who in 1951 was voted Canada's "Horse of the Half-Century".

==Racing career==
==Racing career==
Racing during the [[Great Depression]] of the 1930s, Bunty Lawless competed for purse money that was very small. At age two, Bunty Lawless finished first or second in all but one of his ten races. The one time he was out of the money that year was in the [[Cup and Saucer Stakes]], when his equipment broke. In 1938, the horse was the top 3-year-old in Canada and his victory in the [[Queen's Plate|King's Plate]], his country's most prestigious race, was enormously popular with the public.<ref>Cauz, Louis E. ''The Plate, A Royal Tradition''. (1984) Deneau Publishers ISBN 0-88879-104-6</ref> In an era when millionaires still dominated Thoroughbred [[horse racing]], the owner and breeder of Bunty Lawless was the exact opposite. The working man's hero, [[William F. Morrissey|Willie Morrissey]] grew up penniless in the poorest section of [[Toronto]], worked as a [[newsboy]], then went on to become a successful [[hotel]] owner and [[boxing]] promoter. At the [[race track]] he sat in the cheap [[grandstand]] seats with the rest of the crowd and was frowned upon by the [[Aristocracy|aristocratic]] elite owners in their [[top hat]]s and [[Black tie|tails]], seated in their exclusive viewing boxes.
Racing during the [[Great Depression]] of the 1930s, Bunty Lawless competed for purse money that was very small. At age two, he finished first or second in all but one of his ten races. The one time he was out of the money that year was in the [[Cup and Saucer Stakes]], when his equipment broke. In 1938, the horse was the top 3-year-old in Canada, and his victory in the [[King's Plate]], his country's most prestigious race, was enormously popular with the public.<ref>Cauz, Louis E. ''The Plate, A Royal Tradition''. (1984) Deneau Publishers {{ISBN|0-88879-104-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1930s/drf1938052301/drf1938052301_34_6 |title=Kings Plate Winner: Bunty Lawless Carries the Morrissey Silks to Toronto Triumph |publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1938-05-23 |access-date=2021-03-11}}</ref> In an era when millionaires still dominated Thoroughbred [[horse racing]], the owner and breeder of Bunty Lawless was the opposite. The working man's hero, Willie Morrissey grew up penniless in the poorest section of [[Toronto]], worked as a [[Newspaper hawker|newsboy]], then became a successful [[hotel]] owner and [[boxing]] promoter. At the [[race track]], he sat in the cheap [[grandstand]] seats with the rest of the crowd and was frowned upon by the [[Aristocracy|aristocratic]] elite owners in their [[top hat]]s and [[Black tie|tails]], seated in their exclusive viewing boxes.

After winning the King's Plate, Bunty Lawless ran second to future Hall of Fame inductee [[Mona Bell (horse)|Mona Bell]] in the 1938 [[Breeders' Stakes]], then won the [[Canadian International Stakes|Canadian Championship Stakes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://woodbine.com/woodbine-media-guide/|title=Woodbine Media Guide|publisher=Woodbine Entertainment Group|date=2018-01-01|access-date=2020-10-05}}</ref> Taken south of the border, he won the August 20th Bennington Handicap at [[Saratoga Race Course]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/08/21/archives/brookmeade-colors-carried-to-victory-by-handcuff-in-7500-added.html |title=Saratoga Chart |publisher=[[New York Times]], Section Sports, page 69 |date=1938-08-21 |access-date=2021-05-04}}</ref>


After winning the King's Plate, Bunty Lawless ran second to [[Mona Bell]] in the 1938 [[Breeders' Stakes]] then won the [[Canadian International Stakes|Canadian Championship Stakes]].
==Stud record==
==Stud record==
Retired to [[horse breeding|stud]], Bunty Lawless proved an exceptional [[Father|sire]] and was Canada's leading sire four times. His offspring includes the 1949 King's Plate winner [[Epic (horse)|Epic]] and 1946 [[Breeders' Stakes]] winner [[Windfields]], for whom [[E. P. Taylor]] would name his [[Windfields Farm|famous farm]]. Bunty Lawless is also the grandsire of Mint Copy, the dam of [[Deputy Minister (horse)|Deputy Minister]], who became an influential sire whose descendants include the famed fillies [[Open Mind (horse)|Open Mind]] (winner of the 1988 [[Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies]] and 1989 [[Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing|Triple Tiara]]) and [[Go For Wand]] (winner of the 1989 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies). His other descendants include [[Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year|Canadian Horse of the Year]] and Hall of Fame inductee [[Victoria Park (horse)|Victoria Park]].<ref>http://www.canadianhorseracinghalloffame.com/thoroughbred/1976/Bunty_Lawless.html Bunty Lawless at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame</ref>
Retired to [[horse breeding|stud]], Bunty Lawless proved an exceptional [[Father|sire]] and was Canada's leading sire four times. His offspring includes 1949 King's Plate winner Epic and 1946 [[Breeders' Stakes]] winner [[Windfields]], for whom [[E. P. Taylor]] named his [[Windfields Farm|famous farm]]. Bunty Lawless is also the grandsire of Mint Copy, the dam of [[Deputy Minister (horse)|Deputy Minister]], who became an influential sire whose descendants include the famed fillies [[Open Mind (horse)|Open Mind]] (winner of the 1988 [[Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies]] and 1989 [[Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing|Triple Tiara]]) and [[Go For Wand]] (winner of the 1989 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies). His other descendants include [[Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year|Canadian Horse of the Year]] and Hall of Fame inductee [[Victoria Park (horse)|Victoria Park]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canadianhorseracinghalloffame.com/thoroughbred/1976/Bunty_Lawless.html |title=Hall of Fame - Thoroughbred - Bunty Lawless, 1976 |access-date=2008-09-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929020234/http://www.canadianhorseracinghalloffame.com/thoroughbred/1976/Bunty_Lawless.html |archive-date=2011-09-29 }} Bunty Lawless at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame</ref>

== Sire line tree ==
{{tree list}}
*'''Bunty Lawless'''<!--b. 1935--><ref>[http://www.canadianhorseracinghalloffame.com/thoroughbred/1976/Bunty_Lawless.html Hall of Fame Inductee: Bunty Lawless]</ref><ref>[http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/bunty-lawless-can.html American Classic Pedigree: Bunty Lawless]</ref>
**[[Windfields]]<!--b. 1943--><ref>[http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/windfields-can.html American Classic Pedigree: Windfields]</ref>
***[[Canadian Champ]]<!--b. 1953--><ref>[http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/canadian-champ-can.html American Classic Pedigree: Canadian Champ]</ref>
****[[Canebora]]<!--b. 1960-->
****[[Titled Hero]]<!--b. 1963-->
**Epic<!--b. 1946-->
**McGill<!--b. 1947-->
{{tree list/end}}

==Pedigree==
{{Pedigree
|name = Bunty Lawless, chestnut colt, 1935
|f = Ladder
|m = Mintwina
|ff = [[Ladkin]]
|fm = Panoply
|mf = Mint Briar
|mm = Edwina
|fff = [[Fair Play (horse)|Fair Play]]
|ffm = Lading
|fmf = [[Peter Pan (American horse)|Peter Pan]]
|fmm = Inaugural
|mff = Assagai
|mfm = Sweet Briar
|mmf = [[Celt (horse)|Celt]]
|mmm = Lady Godiva
|ffff = [[Hastings (horse)|Hastings]]
|fffm = Fairy Gold
|ffmf = [[Negofol]]
|ffmm = Lady Amelia
|fmff = '''[[Commando (horse)|Commando]]*'''
|fmfm = Cinderella
|fmmf = [[Voter (horse)|Voter]]
|fmmm = Court Dress
|mfff = [[Spearmint (horse)|Spearmint]]
|mffm = Charm
|mfmf = [[St. Frusquin]]
|mfmm = Presentation
|mmff = '''Commando*'''
|mmfm = Maid of Erin
|mmmf = [[Hanover (horse)|Hanover]]
|mmmm = Edith Gray (family: 10-c)
}}

<nowiki>*</nowiki> Bunty Lawless is [[inbreeding|inbred]] 4S × 4D to the stallion [[Commando (horse)|Commando]], meaning that he appears fourth generation on the sire side of his pedigree and fourth generation on the dam side of his pedigree.


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 17:29, 17 March 2024

Bunty Lawless
Racehorse Bunty Lawless, 29 June 1939
SireLadder
GrandsireLadkin
DamMintwina
DamsireMint Briar
SexStallion
Foaled1935
CountryCanada
ColourBay
BreederWilliam F. Morrissey
OwnerWilliam Morrissey
TrainerJack Anderson
Pete McCann (age 6)
Record47: 19-15-3
Earnings$34,379[1]
Major wins
Clarendon Plate (1937)
Bennington Handicap (1938)
Canadian Championship Stakes (1938, 1941)

Canadian Classic Race wins:
King's Plate (1938)

Honours
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1976)
Voted "Canadian Horse of the Half Century"
Bunty Lawless Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack

Bunty Lawless (1935–1956) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse who in 1951 was voted Canada's "Horse of the Half-Century".

Racing career

[edit]

Racing during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Bunty Lawless competed for purse money that was very small. At age two, he finished first or second in all but one of his ten races. The one time he was out of the money that year was in the Cup and Saucer Stakes, when his equipment broke. In 1938, the horse was the top 3-year-old in Canada, and his victory in the King's Plate, his country's most prestigious race, was enormously popular with the public.[2][3] In an era when millionaires still dominated Thoroughbred horse racing, the owner and breeder of Bunty Lawless was the opposite. The working man's hero, Willie Morrissey grew up penniless in the poorest section of Toronto, worked as a newsboy, then became a successful hotel owner and boxing promoter. At the race track, he sat in the cheap grandstand seats with the rest of the crowd and was frowned upon by the aristocratic elite owners in their top hats and tails, seated in their exclusive viewing boxes.

After winning the King's Plate, Bunty Lawless ran second to future Hall of Fame inductee Mona Bell in the 1938 Breeders' Stakes, then won the Canadian Championship Stakes.[4] Taken south of the border, he won the August 20th Bennington Handicap at Saratoga Race Course.[5]

Stud record

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Retired to stud, Bunty Lawless proved an exceptional sire and was Canada's leading sire four times. His offspring includes 1949 King's Plate winner Epic and 1946 Breeders' Stakes winner Windfields, for whom E. P. Taylor named his famous farm. Bunty Lawless is also the grandsire of Mint Copy, the dam of Deputy Minister, who became an influential sire whose descendants include the famed fillies Open Mind (winner of the 1988 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and 1989 Triple Tiara) and Go For Wand (winner of the 1989 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies). His other descendants include Canadian Horse of the Year and Hall of Fame inductee Victoria Park.[6]

Sire line tree

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Pedigree

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Pedigree of Bunty Lawless, chestnut colt, 1935
Sire
Ladder 		Ladkin Fair Play Hastings
Fairy Gold
Lading Negofol
Lady Amelia
Panoply Peter Pan Commando*
Cinderella
Inaugural Voter
Court Dress
Dam
Mintwina 		Mint Briar Assagai Spearmint
Charm
Sweet Briar St. Frusquin
Presentation
Edwina Celt Commando*
Maid of Erin
Lady Godiva Hanover
Edith Gray (family: 10-c)

* Bunty Lawless is inbred 4S × 4D to the stallion Commando, meaning that he appears fourth generation on the sire side of his pedigree and fourth generation on the dam side of his pedigree.

References

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  1. ^ http://www.pedigreequery.com/bunty+lawless Bunty Lawliss' pedigree and racing stats
  2. ^ Cauz, Louis E. The Plate, A Royal Tradition. (1984) Deneau Publishers ISBN 0-88879-104-6
  3. ^ "Kings Plate Winner: Bunty Lawless Carries the Morrissey Silks to Toronto Triumph". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1938-05-23. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  4. ^ "Woodbine Media Guide". Woodbine Entertainment Group. 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  5. ^ "Saratoga Chart". New York Times, Section Sports, page 69. 1938-08-21. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  6. ^ "Hall of Fame - Thoroughbred - Bunty Lawless, 1976". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2008-09-11. Bunty Lawless at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame
  7. ^ Hall of Fame Inductee: Bunty Lawless
  8. ^ American Classic Pedigree: Bunty Lawless
  9. ^ American Classic Pedigree: Windfields
  10. ^ American Classic Pedigree: Canadian Champ
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