Penny chenery net worth at death
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WRITTEN BY MARION E. ALTIERI
What can be written about Penny Chenery, that hasn’t been written or said already? The youngest of Christopher T. Chenery and Helen Clementina Bates Chenery’s three children, Penny was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1922, and reared in nearby Pelham Manor.
Penny loved horses from early childhood; she learned to ride when she was five. In 1936 she was 14, and her father built The Meadow, his Thoroughbred breeding farm in Caroline County, Virginia. (Penny also shared her sire’s business acumen – an attribute she would call upon in the early 1970s.) She attended the elite Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, where she was Captain of the Equestrian Team in her Senior year. (Of course, her talent for riding was a logical and emotional response to the species – but genetics and familial predilections surely played roles, as well.) She credits her father, for she believed that she had inherited that affection.)
"My father really loved horses. I think a parent often communicates his love to a child."
From the Madeira School, she went on to Sm
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Penny Chenery, owner of 1973 Triple Crown champion Secretariat, died on Saturday, September 16, as the result of a stroke. She was 95 years old.
Born Helen Bates Chenery, Penny entered the Thoroughbred racing world through her father, Christopher Chenery. The elder Chenery built his fortune in the utilities industry and operated Meadow Stable, a breeding and racing stable. Penny grew up riding and kept the hobby up through adulthood. But it wasn’t until her father became ill in the late 1960s that she took over the business and became deeply involved in the sport of racing.
Under Penny Chenery’s direction, Meadow Stable won its first Kentucky Derby in 1972 with a horse called Riva Ridge, a solid bay colt who also won the Belmont Stakes that year. No one predicted that Riva Ridge’s phenomenal performances would be eclipsed so completely by his stablemate just one year later.
In 1973, Secretariat ended a 25-year-old Triple Crown drought by being the first to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes since Citation in 1948. His win at the Belmont, by a s
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Penny Chenery
American racehorse owner and breeder
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. The youngest of three children, she graduated from The Madeira School in 1939 and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College, then studied at the Columbia Business School, where she met her future husband, John Tweedy, Sr., a Columbia Law School graduate.[3] In March 2011, Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, awarded Chenery an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
Early life
Penny Chenery was born in 1922 in New Rochelle, New York, and was raised in Pelham Manor, New York. The youngest of three children, she was named Helen Bates Chenery after her mother. Her father, Christopher Chenery, a Virginian, was driven by early poverty to become a millionaire, a goal he accomplished by 1928 by founding utility companies, first Federal Water Service, and then Southern N
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