thepoweradetheif

NO she is just the most recent PR recipient......The history of the game is full of competent even brillinat breeders OTHER than the one touted in the newspapers

was talk at once point that he might go for the Grand Prix de la Arc d'Triomphe

for example Lily Livingston http://www.canadianhorseracinghalloffame.com/builders/2011/lily_livingston.html

After knowing all the details, it is a very sad thing and tremendous disjustice to Big Red that she retired him instead of racing him.. The one thing he loved more than anything was to run. She retired him (for money) and deprived him and all of us of seeing what he was really capable of.

Yes the taxes on her fathers estate was the reason she syndicated him, but as I understand it she could get investors unless agreed to only racing him the two years. One has to remember this was a syndicate for a 2 yr. old who if he had been like other Bold Ruler's , Queen of the Stage, Bold Lad, vitriolic, successor etc come to mind never had a three yr. old season like their two yr old. So it was a gamble for the investors as well. As I understand that Claiborne put Secretariat to sleep without informing her. According to her, she was unaware of how severe his laminitis was.

I think, for a while at least, she killed his spirit. I am not sure I am a Penny Chenery fan anymore. was she there when he died?

I would have love to see Red run a couple years more but from Penny family was in big debt to the government for inheritance tax. Syndicating him was her only option or sell him to the man that made the wrong choice in the coin task. I would have settle to him run as a 4 year old which she could have put in the syndicate clause. No, she wasn't there when he died. She had a closer attachment to Riva Ridge.