Genuine Risk (February 15, 1977 – August 18, 2008) was 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. She was foaled in Kentucky.
Genuine Risk was only the second filly to win the Kentucky Derby. The first was Regret, winning the 1915 Derby 65 years earlier. Since then, only...
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Genuine Risk (February 15, 1977 – August 18, 2008) was 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. She was foaled in Kentucky.
Genuine Risk was only the second filly to win the Kentucky Derby. The first was Regret, winning the 1915 Derby 65 years earlier. Since then, only one other filly, Winning Colors, has won, taking the 1988 Kentucky Derby.
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...
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