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Editor: [email protected] Christine Wittmer Advertising: [email protected] CHRISTINA HOUSE Penny Chenery receives the Award of Merit at the 35th Annual Eclipse Awards BLOODHORSE DAILY Download the FREE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 3 OF 32 smartphone app PENNY CHENERY, FIRST LADY OF RACING, DIES AT 95 By BloodHorse Staff elen "Penny" Chenery, owner Hof 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat and a well-loved figure in her own right as a champion of Thor- oughbreds and women in business and sports, died Sept. 16, in her Col- orado home following complications from a stroke. She was 95. Chenery's children announced her death through Leonard Lusky, her longtime friend and business partner. Following Secretariat's retirement TASICH GARY from racing, Chenery became an Penny Chenery signs a photo of Paynter during the 2012 Vox Populi Awards at Santa Anita ambassador for Thoroughbred racing and remained so, even after created the Secretariat Vox Populi advancement as well as efforts to ban the champion's death in 1989. She Award, annually honoring racing's the use of performance-enhancing served as the first female president most popular horse, as well as the drugs in racing. of the Thoroughbred Owners and Secretariat Foundation, which assists Secretariat's Triple Crown Breeders Association and president and supports various charities within campaign and Chenery's meteoric of the Grayson-Jockey Club Research the racing community. Chenery rise in the sport were featured Foundation. received the 2006 Eclipse Award in the 2010 Disney Studios film She became one of the first of Merit for lifetime contributions Secretariat, in which she was women admitted to The Jockey Club, to the Thoroughbred industry, portrayed by Diane Lane. helped found the Thoroughbred and in recent years, she advocated Chenery is survived by four Retirement Foundation, and for laminitis research and care children: Sarah Manning, Chris Tweedy, Kate Tweedy, and John Tweedy; and by seven grandchildren: Elena Grath, Alice McGrath, Chris Manning, Amanda Tweedy, Paige Tweedy, and Marcus Tweedy; and one stepson Jon Ringquist. "We are deeply proud of our mother, her accomplishments, and her courage." said daughter Kate Tweedy. "As we mourn her loss, the example of her strength, her intelligence, and her enduring spirit continue to inspire us." While the family requests that its privacy be respected for an initial week of mourning, Lusky says BLOODHORSE LIBRARY Penny Chenery with Secretariat in 1973 (continued on page 6) BLOODHORSE DAILY Download the FREE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 4 OF 32 smartphone app The Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association presents $250,000 Bonus to a PA-Sired, PA-Bred ($200,000 - owner, $50,000 - breeder) Who Wins the 2017 Pennsylvania Derby $100,000 for 2nd and 3rd place ($75,000 - owner, $25,000 breeder) Photo: Nikki Sherman, PTHA Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association • www.pabred.com 701 East Baltimore Pike, Suite E, Kennett Square, PA 19348 • 610.444.1050 PENNY CHENERY, FIRST LADY became her young family's passion. But it was only a OF RACING, DIES AT 95 matter of time before her thwarted energy and ambition would split the confines of motherhood and volunteering. (continued from page 4) That chance to break free came in the form of a phone that plans for a future public memorial service will be call on a November afternoon. Chenery's father Chris had announced soon. been building a Thoroughbred racing stable since the "We have always been overwhelmed and amazed by 1940s based on carefully-selected broodmares. He had the love and support Mom received from her many fans," come close, twice, to achieving his life's dream of winning John Tweedy said. "We look forward to a time soon when the Kentucky Derby. But by 1967 his health and mind we can celebrate her life in a way that honors that legacy." were starting to fail. That fall his wife Helen died, and In lieu of flowers, the Secretariat Foundation is when Chenery received the call to return home for her offering special Penny Chenery Memorial fundraising mother's funeral, she realized her father needed help. projects on behalf of selected equine-related charities. For She took over management of the racing stable, with details, visit Secretariat.com. the help of her siblings, Margaret Carmichael and Hollis Chenery was born on Jan. 27, 1922, in New Rochelle, Chenery, and her father's business secretary, Elizabeth N.Y., to Christopher and Helen Chenery. Chris Chenery Ham. was a New York utilities tycoon, whose first love was his The operation was losing money and nobody took her small but esteemed racing stable in his native Virginia. As seriously. She poured herself into the work, commuting a girl, Chenery inherited her father's passion for horses and every month from Colorado to Virginia, but after two rode constantly, both at home and at the Virginia horse more years in the red, selling the stable seemed almost farm, The Meadow. "I had the horse bug," she recalled. "I inevitable. wasn't 'National Velvet.' Horses were just my friends." In 1971 her colt Riva Ridge swept the juvenile stakes Chenery attended the Madeira School and graduated and was named champion 2-year-old colt. In 1972, 'Riva' from Smith College in 1943. Eager to aid the war effort, she won the Kentucky Derby, fulfilling Chris Chenery's dream joined a naval architecture firm that designed Normandy in the last year of his life. landing craft, then served as a nurse's aide in a stateside That same year, Secretariat burst onto the scene, so hospital. In 1946, Chenery went to France and Germany dominating the 2-year-old races that he won Horse of with the American Red Cross, working with demobilizing the Year honors. Secretariat's 1973 Triple Crown season GIs—one of her most formative experiences. "You had unfolded with record-setting performances that still to be 23 to go," she recalled. "They thought younger girls stand, culminating in one of the most celebrated athletic weren't mature enough. And they were right!" performances of all time, a 31-length victory in the Coming home, Chenery entered Columbia Business Belmont Stakes (G1). School, one of only 20 women in her class. Only six Thrust into national prominence as the owner of Riva months shy of graduation she was engaged to Columbia Ridge and Secretariat, Mrs. Tweedy—as she was known at Law graduate John Bayard "Jack" Tweedy. Penny's the time—charmed the nation as an engaging and quick- father, who had initially encouraged her to go to business witted owner, who represented her equine champions school, now told her to quit and concentrate on her with poise, dignity, and keen business sense. wedding. With deep ambivalence, she complied. She quickly grasped her role as the voice of the silent The Tweedys settled in Denver in 1950. They had equine hero. As she put it, "The horse can't talk—but I four children: Sarah (1950), Kate (1952), Chris (1955), can." and John (1960). She threw herself into every social, Kevin Flanery, president of Churchill Downs said in charitable, civic, educational and political pursuit to a statement, "Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby which a respectable housewife was allowed, from the family join all in Thoroughbred racing in mourning the Junior League to Planned Parenthood. She and Jack passing of Penny Chenery. Fans embraced her as the helped found and raise the initial capital for the Vail ski owner of Secretariat, her legendary Kentucky Derby and resort in the early 1960s, where Jack was the first board Triple Crown winner and American sports icon, along chairman and general counsel, and Penny's father was with her ongoing role as the protector of his legacy and a major investor.