Genuine Risk

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Genuine Risk
Genuine Risk by Hallie McEvoy
Sire:	Exclusive Native
Grandsire:	Raise a Native
Dam:	Virtuous
Damsire:	Gallant Man
Sex:	Filly
Foaled:	1977
Country:	USA
Colour:	Chestnut
Breeder:	Mrs. Sally Humphrey
Owner:	Diana J. Firestone
Trainer:	LeRoy Jolley
Record:	15:10-3-2
Earnings:	$646,587
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Demoiselle Stakes (1979) Kentucky Derby (1980) Ruffian Handicap (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 (born 1977) a chestnut filly, was the winner of the 1980 Kentucky Derby. She finished second the same year 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 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 has been retired from breeding in 2000 after losing several foals or failing to conceive. She is stabled at Newstead Farm in Virginia.