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Penny Chenery celebrating after Secretariat won the Triple Crown in 1973.
Jack Kanthal/Associated Press; thumbnail, Rene Macura/Associated Press, 2006
Penny Chenery
Died on September 16, 2017 at age 95
Ms. Chenery took over her father’s thoroughbred farm with little knowledge of horse racing and became one of the few prominent women in the sport as the owner and breeder of Secretariat, perhaps the fastest horse who ever raced.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.