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Chenery moved many of the remaining horses to Long Island, N.Y. and continued racing. Although Penny Chenery gets the credit for managing Secretariat's racing career, Christopher Chenery was the genius behind the matching of Somethingroyal and Bold Ruler to produce Secretariat. In 1965 he set up the deal by which two Meadow mares would be bred ...
The year before, Copelan had examined another one of Penny Chenery’s horses, 1972 Kentucky Derby winner Riva Ridge, in the days leading up to the race. He'd built a relationship with one of the ...
Secretariat was officially bred by Christopher Chenery's Meadow Stud, [1] but the breeding was actually arranged by Penny Chenery (then known as Penny Tweedy), who had taken over the running of the stable in 1968 when her father became ill. [3] Secretariat was sired by Bold Ruler and his dam was Somethingroyal, a daughter of Princequillo.
Indeed, both our mother Penny Chenery, who managed Secretariat, and our grandfather Christopher Chenery, who bred him, were morally committed to the rule that horses should only be given healthy ...
He was voted Eclipse Awards as best 2-year-old Male and the more prestigious Horse of the Year. It was at that point Penny Chenery sold the breeding syndication rights for $6.08 million, a record ...
Somethingroyal's dam Imperatrice was a stakes winning mare who was bought by Chenery at a dispersal sale in 1947 for $30,000. Imperatrice was the dam of six stakes winners but is now best known for producing Somethingroyal, who raced only once, finishing unplaced.
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The 1973 Belmont Stakes was the 105th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, held on June 9, 1973.Facing a field of five horses, Secretariat won by 31 lengths going away (had the race been longer he would have won by even more), the largest margin of victory in Belmont history, in front of a crowd of 69,138 spectators.