Tag: Secretariat

Secretariat: Chills, 40 years later

Forty years later, it still gives you chills. Watching video of Secretariat blazing down the home stretch in the 1973 Belmont Stakes, winning the third leg of the Triple Crown by 31 lengths, a crowd gathered at the Kentucky Derby Museum earlier this…

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Welcome to Derby week!

Col. Bourbon here and I would like to welcome y’all to Derby week, whether you are visiting from afar or are fortunate enough to call old Kentucky home. There’s a lot going on in the week leading up to the Greatest Two…

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKKHyk3BR_M?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0&w=500&h=375] Four Roses’ official video of Secretariat owner Penny Chenery selecting the single-barrel bourbon for commemorative bottles and decanters, and a look at the artist behind the decanter. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

Penny Chenery: 91-proof personality

“If you like bourbon, this will be fun,” Four Roses master distiller Jim Rutledge told Secretariat owner Penny Chenery as he escorted her into the brand’s bottling facility in Cox’s Creek, Ky., where she was to select two single-barrel bourbons…

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