Genuine Risk

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Genuine Risk
Sire Exclusive Native
Grandsire Raise a Native
Dam Virtuous
Damsire Gallant Man
Sex Filly
Foaled February 15, 1977
Country USA
Colour Chestnut
Breeder Sally Humphrey
Owner Diana M. Firestone
Trainer LeRoy Jolley
Record 15:10-3-2
Earnings $646,587
Major Racing Wins, Awards and Honours
Major Racing Wins
Demoiselle Stakes (1979)
Tempted stakes (1979)
Ruffian Handicap (1980)

American Classic Race wins:
Kentucky Derby (1980)
Racing Awards
U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly (1980)
Honours
U.S. Racing Hall of Fame (1986)
#91 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Genuine Risk Handicap at Belmont Park
Infobox last updated on: 25 July, 2006.

"Genuine Risk" (foaled February 15, 1977 in Kentucky) is a chestnut mare who won the 1980 Kentucky Derby and was the first filly to ever finish in the money in all three U.S. Triple Crown races. Ridden by Jacinto Vasquez, she finished second in the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. At present she is the oldest living winner of the Kentucky Derby.

She was only the second filly to win the Kentucky Derby, the first being "Regret", 65 years earlier in 1915.

Genuine Risk's first mate was 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. Unfortunately, Genuine Risk 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 and currently stands in Wyoming, but "Count Our Blessing" was eventually gelded.

Genuine Risk was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1986. In the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century, she was ranked #91.

She was retired from breeding in 2000 after losing several foals or failing to conceive. She is stabled at the Firestone's Newstead Farm in Upperville, Virginia.

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