{{Infobox racehorse , horsename = Tenacious , image = , caption = , sire =

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, grandsire = Challenger II , dam = Dorothy B. Jr. , damsire = Brown King , sex =

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, foaled = 1954 , country = United States , color =

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, breeder =

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, owner = Dorothy Dorsett Brown , trainer = John B. Theall , record = 112: 20-16-17 , earnings =

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261,770 , race = Thanksgiving Handicap (1957)
A. B. Letellier Memorial Handicap (1958, 1960)

Louisiana Handicap The Louisiana Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged four years and older over a distance miles on the dirt track held annually during the third week of January at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana ...

(1958, 1959, 1960)

New Orleans Handicap The New Orleans Classic Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. Open to horses four years old and up, the race is run at a distance of one and one-eighth miles on the dirt. ...

(1958, 1959)
Pelleteri Handicap (1958)
Lecomte Handicap (1959, 1960, 1961) , awards = , honors = Tenacious Handicap at Fair Grounds

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(1971) , updated= Tenacious (1954–1967) was an American

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who was one of the most popular ever to compete in

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. In 1966,

Fair Grounds Race Course Fair Grounds Race Course, often known as New Orleans Fair Grounds, is a thoroughbred racetrack and racino in New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana. It is operated by Churchill Downs Louisiana Horseracing Company, LLC. The ''Carrollton Race Cours ...

inaugurated the Tenacious Handicap in his honor and on his death in 1967, a memorial plaque was installed in the track's infield and following its creation in 1971, he was inducted in the Fair Grounds Hall of Fame. Tenacious was bred and raced by Dorothy Dorsett Brown, wife of Joe W. Brown, a prominent Louisiana

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man and owner of the Horseshoe Club Casino in

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. Out of the mare Dorothy B. Jr., Tenacious was sired by

, the 1939

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and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. Trained by John Theall, for the majority of his important wins Tenacious was by ridden by

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jockey

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. The horse competed for six years during which time he was a three-time winner of both the

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and the Lecomte Handicap

Among his other accomplishments, Tenacious won back-to-back editions of the

Retired from racing after the 1962 season, Tenacious sired only a limited number of foals before he died unexpectedly on December 17, 1967 at

Spendthrift Farm Spendthrift Farm is a thoroughbred race horse breeding farm and burial site in Lexington, Kentucky, currently owned by Eric & Tammy Gustavson. It was founded by Leslie Combs II and named for the great stallion Spendthrift, who was owned by Combs ...

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References

Tenacious's pedigree and partial racing stats
1954 racehorse births 1967 racehorse deaths Thoroughbred family 4-r Racehorses bred in Kentucky Racehorses trained in the United States