Helen Bates "Penny" Chenery Tweedy (January 27, 1922 - September 16, 2017) is an American sportsman who raised and spurred the Secretariat, the 1973 winner of the Triple Crown. The youngest of three children, he graduated from The Madeira School in 1939 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College, then studied at Columbia Business School, where he met his future husband, John Tweedy, Sr., a Columbia Law School. In March 2011, Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia gave Chains an Honorary Doctorate of Law. Married in May 1949, the couple had four children.
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Early life and career
Penny Chenery was born in 1922 in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Pelham Manor, New York. The youngest of three children, he was named Helen Bates Chenery after his mother. His father, Christopher Chenery, a poor-growing Virginian, was a finance company that founded Southern Natural Gas Company, among other companies. He also founded Meadow Stable, a horse racing operation and a horse farm business at The Meadow in Caroline County.
Chenery liked horses from a young age, and learned to ride at the age of five. Believing in his appreciation of horses from his father, Chenery stated, "My father really loves horses, I think parents often communicate their love to a child." He shared many of his father's interests and purposes, including his education. She attended the Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, a highly competitive women's high school with facilities to ride horses and bring horses to school by a number of students. After graduating, he attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and studied American history. After graduating in 1943, Chenery worked as an assistant to Gibbs and Cox, the company that designed the war craft for the Normandy invasion; after the invasion, he quit his job. At the urging of his father, Chener volunteered to join the Red Cross and in 1945 went to France as Donat Girl to help war-weary soldiers switch to the ship home at the end of World War II.
When Chains returned from Europe in 1946, his father encouraged him to advance his education by attending Columbia Business School. To make this proposition more interesting, his father offered to pay for his daughter, and gave him an allowance, equal to the highest paid amount of work he could get if he did not go to business school. Chenery decided to attend, and was one of twenty women who attended that year among eight hundred men. While there, he met John Bayard Tweedy, whom he married in May 1949. For nineteen years, in Denver, Colorado, he lived the life of a suburban housewife and mother to four children: Sarah, Christopher, Kate, and John Jr. enjoying skiing in Vail, Colorado with her husband, riding her horse, and raising funds for the Red Cross.
Chener's life changed when his father became disabled. He was hospitalized at New Rochelle Hospital in late February 1968 and remained there until his death in January 1973. Always profitable, the stable began to lose money in the late 1960s, exacerbated by his father's illness. Chener siblings were originally planned to sell operations when their father could no longer run them. Chenery, however, wanted to try to fulfill his father's dream of winning the Kentucky Derby. Housewives and mothers of four children were elected president of the Meadow Stud board, which runs a stable race. In 1969, he fired the old coach Casey Hayes. Chenery consults with Bull Hancock's long-time family friend and business associate Claiborne Farm, and for his advice on hiring Roger Laurin to train and manage Meadow Stable horses. Laurin helped cut costs and restore operations to profitability before setting out to train the powerful Phipps home kennel. In May 1971, Chenery hired his father, Lucien Laurin, and in 1972 they guided Riva Ridge Farme pasture horses to victories at Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes and the Secretariat two years into the 1972 American Horse of the Year honors. The following year, the Secretariat captured the imagination of racing fans around the world when he became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years. Both horses were incorporated into the National Museum of Racing and the Hall of Fame.
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Breeding Secretariat
Although Christopher Chenery is listed as an official secretarial farmer, Penny Chenery has taken control of Meadow Stables after her father got sick. It was Penny Chenery who made the decision to grow their horse thingroyal into Bold Ruler. The first marriage in 1968 produced the stallion of The Bride. The second glorification, in 1969, resulted in the Secretariat.
In 1983, Chenery, Martha F. Gerry, and Allaire du Pont became the first women to receive as members of The Jockey Club. From 1976 to 1984, Chenery served as president of the Crushed Owners and Breeders' Association. Also in 1976, he became a member of the Executive Committee of the American Horse Council, the horse industry trade association in Washington, DC. He also serves as a member of the Jockey Club jockey panel that bestows the Dogwood Dominion Award. In addition, he helped found the Thoroughbred Pension Foundation, an organization dedicated to rescuing Thoroughbred horses no longer able to compete on the racetrack of possible omissions, harassment, and slaughter.
In addition to captivity of the Secretariat, Chenery grew up Saratoga Dew, who became the first horse raised in New York to win the Eclipse Prize when the foal was chosen as the Filly American Champion of Three-Year-Old Filly in 1992.
In 2003, the Arlington Park track set up an annual "Penny Chenery Distinguished Woman in Racing Award". In 2006, the National Racing Racing Society honored him with the Eclipse of Merit Award for a lifetime of outstanding achievements in racing. In 2009, he was awarded the Smith College Medal for outstanding professional achievement and outstanding service to his community.
Chenery moved from Colorado to Long Island, New York in 1972. In the early 90s, he moved to Lexington, Kentucky. In 2005, Chenery moved to Boulder, Colorado to spend his final years near his children.
Chenery is portrayed by actress Diane Lane in the 2010 film Secretariat, released on October 8, 2010. Chenery himself appeared in a cameo role in the film as a spectator at Belmont Stakes.
Penny Chenery meninggal pada 16 September 2017 di rumahnya di Boulder, Colorado akibat komplikasi akibat stroke. Dia berumur 95 tahun.
Referensi
Bacaan lebih lanjut
- Chenery Tweedy, Kate; Meadows Ladin, Leeanne; Dementi, Wayne (2010). Secretariat's Meadow - The Land, The Family, The Legend . Penerbitan Milestone Dementi. ISBN: 978-0-982-7019-0-4.
- Nack, William (2002). Sekretariat: Pembuatan Seorang Juara . Da Capo Press. ISBN: 978-0-306-81133-3.
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