Helen Bates "Penny" Chenery (January 27, 1922 – September 16, 2017) (married names: Penny Tweedy until 1974 and later Penny Ringquist until 1980) was an American sportswoman who bred and owned Secretariat, the 1973 winner of the Triple Crown.
Today we fondly remember Secretariat's owner Penny Chenery, the "First Lady of Racing," born on this day in 1922. Among her many accolades, Chenery received the 2005 Eclipse Award of Merit for her lifetime of outstanding achievement in Thoroughbred racing.
In January 1973, Christopher Chenery, the founder of Meadow Stables, died and the taxes on his estate forced his daughter Penny to consider selling Secretariat.
To secure her family's future and support Meadow Stable—struggling after her father's passing—Penny sold Secretariat's breeding rights for a then-record $6.08 million. 🧠 This strategic move allowed her to keep control over Secretariat's racing career until the end and protect the legacy of her beloved horse.
How much does Mr. Phipps offer for Secretariat's purchase?
She tries to sell a share to Ogden Phipps, who instead offers to buy the horse for seven million dollars. Penny refuses to sell him. When Phipps demands to know why, she tells him Secretariat's value will triple when he wins the Triple Crown – a feat no horse has accomplished in twenty-five years.
Secretariat’s death revealed why he was ‘tremendous machine’
How much money did Secretariat win in his lifetime?
A record-breaking money winner, in 1973 he became the ninth winner of the U.S. Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes). In his short, brilliant 16-month career, he came in first 16 times, second three times, and third once, winning a total of $1,316,808.
He knew he was a winner,” said Penny Chenery, who took on her maiden name after her divorce from John Tweedy late in 1973. “He wasn't just the greatest horse I ever had. He was the greatest horse anybody ever had.” We love secretariat page.
The bloodline of Secretariat still exists. During the Triple Crown winner's lifetime, he sired more than 660 foals, including Lady's Secret, who was named Horse of the Year in 1987, and Risen Star, the winner of the Belmont and Preakness stakes in 1988.
Here's what it should have said. Secretariat is the only horse whose whole body is buried along with all the other horses at Claiborne farm in Paris Kentucky.
He formed a particularly close bond with a powerful chestnut colt named Secretariat—known to the stable as “Big Red.” “I guess a groom gets closer to a horse than anyone,” Sweat once told a reporter. “The owner, the trainer—they maybe see him once a day. But I lived with Secretariat.”
A search of pedigrees found that each horse has some relation to Secretariat, who set the fastest Derby time ever in 1973 on his way to the Triple Crown. Secretariat sired more than 660 registered foals in his lifetime, with several such sires or dams showing up in each Kentucky Derby horse's pedigree.
The idea that Secretariat had to win the Triple Crown to save Meadow Stud is sheer fiction and also ignores the contributions of Riva Ridge – who won the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes for Chenery the year that Secretariat was a 2-year-old but is not once even mentioned in the movie.
Man O' War vs Secretariat: Who Was Better? Secretariat may be the most famous, but Man O' War faced harsher conditions such as steel shoes, heavier loads, rougher tracks; and still dominated. Many historians consider Man O' War the true GOAT.
How much money did Secretariat make in his lifetime?
Secretariat won and lost a few more races, setting more records in the process, and after his final race on October 28, 1973, he was retired to stud in Paris, Kentucky. He had won sixteen of twenty-one races, most by handsome margins, and accumulated $1.3 million in winnings over his career.
The legendary Secretariat set still-standing stakes records in all three legs of the 1973 Triple Crown, winning the 1 1/4-mile Kentucky Derby (G1) in 1:59 2/5, the 1 3/16-mile Preakness S. (G1) in 1:53, and the 1 1/2-mile Belmont S. (G1) in 2:24.
Although an injury caused Seabiscuit to miss the 1939 season, he returned to win several races in early 1940 before retiring. Seabiscuit spent his retirement at Howard's Ridgewood Ranch in California, where over 50,000 people visited the celebrity horse before he died in 1947.
Christopher Chenery, 86, died the first week of January in 1973, before Secretariat embarked on his 3-year-old season. The Chenery heirs were faced with paying a huge estate tax. Secretariat was syndicated for breeding purposes for $6.08 million. “That saved the day,” Penny Chenery said.
(AP) - Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte, who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, has died. He was 84. Turcotte's family said through his longtime business partner and friend Leonard Lusky that the Canada-born jockey died of natural causes Friday at his home in Drummond, New Brunswick.
