Enuine Risk Commemorative / May 10, 1980 Articles As They Appeared in the Pages of the Blood-Horse Magazine
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KentuckySECTION Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 ARTICLES AS THEY APPEARED IN THE PAGES OF THE BLOOD-HORSE MAGAZINE ENUINE G RISK 1977-2008 Includes the following stories KENTUCKY DERBY PREAKNESS BELMONT RETIREMENT PREAKNESS CONTROVERSY HALL OF FAME HER FOALS 25 YEARS AFTER DERBY 1 Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 3 Kentucky Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 4 Kentucky Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 5 Kentucky Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 6 Kentucky Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 7 Kentucky Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 8 Kentucky Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 9 KentuckySECTION Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 10 KentuckySECTION Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 11 KentuckySECTION Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 12 KentuckySECTION Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 13 KentuckySECTION Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 14 KentuckySECTION Derby Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 10, 1980 15 PreaknessSECTION Stakes Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 24, 1980 16 PreaknessSECTION Stakes Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 24, 1980 17 PreaknessSECTION Stakes Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 24, 1980 18 PreaknessSECTION Stakes Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 24, 1980 19 PreaknessSECTION Stakes Genuine Risk Commemorative / JUNE 7, 1980 20 PreaknessSECTION Stakes Genuine Risk Commemorative / JUNE 7, 1980 21 BelmontSECTION Stakes Genuine Risk Commemorative / JUNE 14, 1980 22 BelmontSECTION Stakes Genuine Risk Commemorative / JUNE 14, 1980 23 BelmontSECTION Stakes Genuine Risk Commemorative / JUNE 14, 1980 24 BelmontSECTION Stakes Genuine Risk Commemorative / JUNE 14, 1980 25 PreaknessSECTION Controversy Genuine Risk Commemorative / JUNE 14, 1980 26 PreaknessSECTION Controversy Genuine Risk Commemorative / JUNE 14, 1980 27 PreaknessSECTION Controversy Genuine Risk Commemorative / JUNE 14, 1980 28 PreaknessSECTION Controversy Genuine Risk Commemorative / JUNE 14, 1980 29 PreaknessSECTION Controversy Genuine Risk Commemorative / JUNE 14, 1980 30 PreaknessSECTION Controversy Genuine Risk Commemorative / JUNE 14, 1980 31 PreaknessSECTION Controversy Genuine Risk Commemorative / SEPTEMBER 12, 1981 32 PreaknessSECTION Controversy Genuine Risk Commemorative / DECEMBER 19, 1981 33 Hall ofSECTION Fame Induction Genuine Risk Commemorative / AUGUST 2, 1986 34 Hall ofSECTION Fame Induction Genuine Risk Commemorative / AUGUST 2, 1986 35 Hall ofSECTION Fame Induction Genuine Risk Commemorative / APRIL 18, 1987 36 Hall ofSECTION Fame Induction Genuine Risk Commemorative / APRIL 18, 1987 37 38 GenuineSECTION Risk Foals Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 29, 1993 39 GenuineSECTION Risk Foals Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 29, 1993 40 GenuineSECTION Risk Foals Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 29, 1993 41 GenuineSECTION Risk Foals Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 29, 1993 42 GenuineSECTION Risk Foals Genuine Risk Commemorative / MAY 29, 1993 43 Top 100SECTION Racehorses List Genuine Risk Commemorative / APRIL 17, 1999 TAKING ON THE COLTS Next Up: How Our Readers Voted Male-Bashing Fillies By David Schmitz IT TAKES A SPECIAL FILLY to win a classic, and a victory over colts in either the Ken- tucky Derby (gr. I), Preakness Stakes (gr. I), or Belmont Stakes (gr. I) goes a long way in gaining immortality. Three fillies have won the Derby, four have taken the Preakness, and two have captured the Belmont, the last time in 1905. This year’s list of classic-contending fillies consists of Three was the overriding reason for their selection. Regret, who Ring, Silverbulletday, and Excellent Meeting. All three are defeated colts in all three of her wins as a 2-year-old, won the headed to Churchill Downs for a major showdown, and there’s 1915 Derby as the favorite to remain unbeaten. The importance a possibility they might give it a try in the Run for the Roses of the victory so impressed breeder-owner H.P. Whitney that instead of the Kentucky Oaks (gr. I). A victory in the Oaks he declared, “I don’t care if she ever wins another race, or if would be special, but a Derby score would be like no other she never starts in another race. She has won the greatest race in America, and I am satisfied.” Three Ring will attempt to join It would be 65 years before another Kentucky Derby-winning fillies Re- gret, Genuine Risk, and owner could make a similar statement. Winning Colors In 1980, Diana Firestone’s filly Genuine Risk provided the racing world with one of its greatest surprises by winning the Derby. Genuine Risk, who was the first filly to start in the race since Silver Spoon in 1959, proved extra special by coming back to run second in both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Those two Derby winners notwith- standing, there are plenty of other dis- taffers in the Top 100 list who ventured out of their division to take on males in some of racing’s most important events. As expected, Calumet Farm campaigned its share during the glory days of the 1940s and ’50s. Calumet at that time operated under the motto “we want all the money,” and trainers Ben and Jimmy Jones weren’t BILL DENVER PHOTO reluctant to test fillies against colts, triumph. Same with a victory in either the Preakness or Bel- even if that meant taking on some of Calumet’s best colts. mont. Twilight Tear, from the first crop of Calumet stallion Bull Lea, Two of the Derby-winning fillies, Regret and Genuine Risk, beat males often enough her 3-year-old season in 1944 that she are included in the 100 Greatest Racehorses of the 20th Cen- was named Horse of the Year over the farm’s Kentucky Derby- tury as selected by The Blood-Horse, and their Derby victory Preakness winner Pensive. 44 Top 100SECTION Racehorses List Genuine Risk Commemorative / APRIL 17, 1999 KENTUCKY DERBY 36 Filly Starters WINNERS Winning Colors ........................... 1988 Genuine Risk .............................. 1980 Regret ........................................ 1915 Twilight Tear raced three times against again in winning the Hollywood Derby and Pensive that July at Washington Park and was voted Horse of the Year. PREAKNESS STAKES won all three races. In one of those starts, It seemed that Gallorette raced more the Skokie Handicap, Twilight Tear set a 51 Filly Starters against males than against females in her 3 track mark of 1:22 ⁄5 for seven furlongs. Twi- WINNERS 72 starts, and maybe she did. Nine of her light Tear beat Pensive and three others in Nellie Morse ................................ 1924 13 stakes wins and plenty of stakes-placings the rich Classic Stakes at the end of the Rhine Maiden ............................. 1915 came against males, including victories in Whimsical .................................. 1906 month. She ended the year with a six-length such important events as the Brooklyn, Flocarline ................................... 1903 victory over Greentree champion Devil Metropolitan, and Carter Handicaps, and Diver in the weight-for-age Pimlico Spe- the Empire City, Whitney, and Wilson BELMONT STAKES cial. Stakes in the 1940s. Gallorette, by Chal- 20 Filly Starters Bull Lea also was responsible for addi- lenger II, won back-to-back Wilsons at Sara- tional Calumet fillies Bewitch and Two Lea. WINNERS toga, joining such male greats as Equipoise, Bewitch defeated male stablemates Citation Tanya ......................................... 1905 Discovery, and Eight Thirty. Ruthless ..................................... 1867 and Free America in the Washington Park Two recent winners of the Whitney at Futurity in the summer of 1947 to extend Saratoga also are included in the Top 100. her unbeaten streak to eight. As a 6-year-old in 1951, Bewitch Lady’s Secret, by Secretariat, captured the 1986 Whitney the finished second against males in the Hollywood Gold Cup and year she was voted Horse of the Year, and Personal Ensign, by American Handicap, defeating all but Citation. Private Account, won the race two years later in the midst of her 1 Two Lea tried the 1 ⁄4-mile Hollywood Gold Cup in 1952 and unbeaten career. came home a winner in time which was only two-fifths of a 4 second slower than Noor’s 1:59 ⁄5 track record. In 1950, Two Artful over Sysonby Lea had finished second in the Santa Anita Maturity and third Artful, by Hamburg, was the first of the fillies on the Top 100 in the Santa Anita Handicap. list to upset one of the great ones. Unfortunately, the glory of her win over Sysonby in the 1904 Futurity Stakes for 2-year-olds More from the ’40s was dimmed following the discovery that the great colt had The 1942 foal crop produced two exceptional fillies—Busher been drugged. Artful, however, didn’t let up. Later that fall, she and Gallorette—and both took turns trouncing males. As with won the White Plains Handicap over males under 130 pounds the Calumet fillies, Chicago was the summer place to race, and in world-record time of 1:08 for six furlongs. Impressive as it Busher scored major wins in the 1945 Washington Park and appeared, the victory was achieved over a straightaway with a Arlington Handicaps. Her victory in the Washington Park marked descent to the finish. Handicap came over Calumet standout Armed in track record Nearly three decades later, Top Flight duplicated Artful’s 4 1 time of 2:01 ⁄5 for the 1 ⁄4 miles. Later that year, Busher beat colts feat of winning the Futurity. Top Flight, by Dis Donc, also won Of the 36 fillies to run in the Kentucky Derby, Genuine Risk (1980) is one of only three to win LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER PHOTO 45 Top 100SECTION Racehorses List Genuine Risk Commemorative / APRIL 17, 1999 the 1931 Saratoga Special and the Handicap, once under 140 pounds. Affectionately also beat Pimlico Futurity over males that males in winning the Toboggan and Sport Page Handicaps. year, and exited racing as the Shuvee, by Nashua, did something no other filly had done sport’s all-time leading female before or since—win the Jockey Club Gold Cup not once, but earner, with $275,900.