DECEMBER 30, 2014 MARY ANN RATHFON GENUINE RISK, with her first foal, 1993 Rahy colt Genuine Reward... The 2008 Horse Fair honors champion racehorse Genuine Risk, shown here nuzzling her first foal. Photo. One of photographer Tony Leonards shots of Genuine Risk and her first foal, Genuine Reward. Photo. Sire: Exclusive Native, Grandsire: Raise a Native. Dam: Virtuous, Damsire: Gallant Man Genuine Risk (Chestnut) , one of only three fillies to win the Kentucky Derby and 1980s champion 3-year-old filly, has died in Virginia at age 31. 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 second in the Belmont Stakes. Winnings: 15 Starts: 10 - 3 - 2, $646,587 Genuine Risk was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1986. Genuine Risks 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. Genuine Risk produced only two live foals, in 17 years.. The first was the colt Genuine Reward, by Rahy, in 1993, and the second was the Chief Honcho colt Count Our Blessing in 1996. Both are unraced. Genuine Risk was an amazing horse with tremendous heart that lived a life befitting a champion, Bert and Diana Firestone. VIDEO: Genuine Risk parades her first foal - after 11 long years of trying... https://youtube/watch?v=TJGcNrgoaSk Vintage North American Horse Racing (cf1970) Internet Photo. Credit Unknown *All copyright and credit for the posted photo of Genuine Risk & Genuine Reward goes solely to the photographer, who took the picture. All rights are therein reserved.
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