Genuine Risk
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Genuine Risk has been ranked in the top ten female horses of the 20th century | |
Last updated on 25 July 2006 |
Genuine Risk (February 15, 1977 – August 18, 2008) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for winning the 1980 Kentucky Derby.
Background
Genuine Risk was a chestnut filly 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.[2]
Triple Crown races
The first filly to win the Kentucky Derby was Regret who won the 1915 Derby 65 years earlier. Genuine Risk was the second in 1980. Since then, the filly Winning Colors won in 1988.
Ridden by Jacinto Vásquez, Genuine Risk finished second in a very controversial Preakness Stakes, after being bumped and carried wide by the winner Codex, after Codex threw a cross-body block at Genuine Risk, and after Codex's jockey Ángel Cordero Jr. hit Genuine Risk in the face with his whip but didn't get disqualified.
Genuine Risk also finished second in the Belmont Stakes to Temperence Hill. The only other filly to compete in all of the triple crown legs was Winning Colors in 1988, who won the Kentucky Derby, placed 3rd in the Preakness Stakes, and 6th in the Belmont Stakes.
Breeding record
Genuine Risk's first mating was to the Triple Crown winner
Over the next 17 years, she produced only two living foals: Genuine Reward, a chestnut
Honors and retirement
Genuine Risk was inducted into the
Retired from breeding in 2000 after losing several foals or failing to
At the age of 31, she died in her paddock at the Firestone family's Virginia-based Newstead Farm on Monday, August 18, 2008.[4]
Pedigree
Sire Exclusive Native (USA) 1965 |
Raise a Native (USA) 1961 |
Native Dancer | Polynesian |
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Geisha | |||
Raise You | Case Ace | ||
Lady Glory | |||
Exclusive (USA) 1953 |
Shut Out | Equipoise | |
Goose Egg | |||
Good Example | Pilate | ||
Parade Girl | |||
Dam Virtuous (USA) 1971 |
Gallant Man (GB) 1954 |
Migoli | Bois Roussel |
Mah Iran | |||
Majideh | Mahmoud | ||
Qurrat-Al-Ain | |||
Due Respect (GB) 1958 |
Zucchero | Nasrullah | |
Castagnola | |||
Auld Alliance | Brantome
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Iona (family: 1-n)[2] |
See also
Sources
- ISBN 978-1-58150-092-9
- Blood-Horse Aug 18, 2008 "Derby Winner Genuine Risk Dies"
- Sailing World July 21, 2008 'Genuine Risk Takes Chicago Mackinac Line Honors'
- 48 Degrees North, August 2004, 'Coming Back in Style'
References
- ^ a b "Genuine Risk pedigree". Equineline. 2012-05-08. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
- ^ a b "Chelandry – Family 1-n". Thoroughbred Bloodlines. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
- ^ "Genuine Reward, Son of Genuine Risk, Euthanized at 25". The Blood-Horse. 16 August 2018.
- ^ http://news.bloodhorse.com/article/46645.htm