A registered Thoroughbred, Cherry Lake raced mostly on the Quarter Horse racetracks and made her mark on the Quarter Horse breed as a broodmare. She was posthumously inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame.

Cherry Lake was a registered Thoroughbred mare, the daughter of Lake Erie and out of a daughter of Nechao named Cherao.^[1] Her sire was a son of the U. S. Triple Crown winner War Admiral while her dam was a granddaughter of Nearco and a great-granddaughter of Hyperion.^[1] She was a 1966 foal.^[2]

In her racing career she started both Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred races. On the quarter tracks, her record was twenty-one starts, ten wins, four seconds and two thirds in three years. She earned a Speed Index rating of 97 and was a stakes race winner. Her total quarter track earnings was $16,651.00.^[2] As a three-year-old she started nine times on the Thoroughbred tracks, with three wins and a third-place finish and earnings of $6109.00.^[3] As a four-year-old she raced twice on the Thoroughbred tracks, with one win for $935.00.^[4]

Among her foals were Cash Rate, Flow of Cash, Six Popper and Counting The Cash.^[5] Six Popper won the All American Derby in 1986 and Cash Rate was the 1985 World Champion Quarter Running Horse.^[5] Cherry Lake died July 1, 1993.^[5]

She was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (or AQHA) AQHA Hall of Fame in 1998.^[6]

• "All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Cherry Lake" retrieved on June 30, 2007
• "AQHA: Hall of Fame". www.aqha.com. American Quarter Horse Association.
• Huffman, Christi L. (March 1998). "They Earned a Place". Quarter Horse Journal: 68–75.
• Staff (1970). The American Racing Manual 1970 Edition. Triangle Publications.
• Staff (1971). The American Racing Manual 1971 Edition. Triangle Publications.
• Wagoner, Dan (1976). Quarter Racing Digest: 1940 to 1976. Grapevine, TX: Equine Research.

• Cherry Lake at Quarter Horse Directory
• Cherry Lake at Quarter Horse Legends