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Our American Stories

The Story of Secretariat’s Owner, Penny Chenery (As Told by the Director of “Secretariat,” Randall Wallace)

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, Randall Wallace is the writer/director of films such as Braveheart, We Were Soldiers, The Man in the Iron Mask, Heaven is For Real, Pearl Harbor, and Secretariat. Here he is to share a story about Penny Chenery, owner of the 1973 Triple Crown winner—a Thoroughbred named Secretariat.

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1:48.4

And we continue with our American stories.

1:53.0

Randall Wallace is the writer and or director of films such as Braveheart.

1:59.7

We were soldiers, The Man in the Iron Mask, Heaven is for Real, Pearl Harbor, and Secretariat.

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