Genuine Risk
| Genuine Risk | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Exclusive Native |
| Grandsire | Raise a Native |
| Dam | Virtuous |
| Damsire | Gallant Man |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | February 15, 1977 |
| Died | August 18, 2008 (aged 31) |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Sally Humphrey |
| Owner | Diana M. Firestone |
| Trainer | LeRoy Jolley |
| Record | 15:10-3-2 |
| Earnings | $646,587 |
| Major wins | |
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Demoiselle Stakes (1979) Kentucky Derby (1980) |
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| Awards | |
| U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly (1980) | |
| Honours | |
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U.S. Racing Hall of Fame (1986) #91 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century Genuine Risk Handicap at Belmont Park Genuine Risk has been ranked in the top ten female horses of the 20th century |
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| Last updated on 25 July 2006 | |
Demoiselle Stakes (1979)
Tempted Stakes (1979)
Ruffian Handicap (1980)
Genuine Risk (February 15, 1977 – August 18, 2008) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for winning the 1980 Kentucky Derby.
Genuine Risk was a chestnut mare bred in Kentucky by Sally Humphrey. She was sired by Exclusive Native, a top-class track performer who was even better as a breeding stallion, siring the Triple Crown winner Affirmed. Her dam Virtuous was descended from the British broodmare Iona, a half-sister to Ocean Swell and the grandmother of Tomy Lee.
The first filly to win the Kentucky Derby was Regret who won the 1915 Derby 65 years earlier. Since then, the filly Winning Colors won in 1988.
Ridden by Jacinto Vasquez, she finished second in the Preakness and second in the Belmont Stakes. The only other filly to compete in all of the triple crown legs was Winning Colors, who won the Kentucky Derby in 1988, placed 3rd in the Preakness Stakes and 6th in the Belmont Stakes.
Genuine Risk's first mating was to the Triple Crown winner Secretariat in 1982. The resulting foal expected in 1983 would have made history as the first offspring of two Kentucky Derby winners. Genuine Risk, however, delivered a stillborn colt. Though scheduled to be bred to Nijinsky II in 1983, she was rebred to Secretariat without success.
Over the next 17 years, she produced only two living foals: Genuine Reward, a chestnut colt by Rahy in 1993, and Count Our Blessing, a chestnut colt by Chief Honcho foaled in 1996. Neither colt ever raced. Genuine Reward went to stud in 1997, sired 47 horses with 13 winners, and was in Wyoming until, July 2015 when he was moved to Old Friends Equine in Georgetown, Kentucky due to the philanthropic efforts of author Laura Hillenbrand. Count Our Blessing was eventually gelded and is currently a show horse under the name of Westley.
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