abstract:Terlingua (1976 - April 29, 2008) was an American thoroughbred bred in Kentucky by Tom Gentry, she was a chestnut filly from the second crop of Triple Crown Winner Secretariat. Terlingua was out of a Crimson Satan mare, Crimson Saint, who was a graded stakes winner as well as a very successful broodmare.
Held in Terlingua, Texas, in 1967, the debut cook-off was organised to settle a score between the embryonic CASI and an East Coast food writer who reviewed their champion's effort as "Texas mud pudding" in an article boldly headlined Nobody Knows More About Chili Than I Do.