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Old 06-16-2009, 12:54 PM
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They may focus somewhat on Penny C's dad, Christopher Chenery, who had bred many outstanding horses, including champions, but hadn't bred/owned a Kentucky Derby winner. How they did a 2-year foal-share with Claiborne in order to breed to Bold Ruler; Claiborne won the coin toss and got the first foal, an unplaced filly named The Bride, and the Cheneries got the second foal, Secretariat. Then Dad dies; family worried they will have to sell the farm to pay the estate taxes, or sell their most valuable asset, Secretariat. Claiborne steps in and sets up the syndicate so that Big Red can still run in the old man's colors. Then, tear-jerking time, Secretariat wins the Triple Crown, was the great horse that the old man had always tried to breed and he didn't live to see triumph. Penny chokes up, accepting the Eclipse awards in her father's memory. Cue sloppy Tchaikovsky-type music.
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