An Outsider Comes In

Nevertheless, Genuine Risk will be remembered as the star of this Triple Crown series. She is somehow both flashy and demure, a filly of ice and iron in a velvet glove. Even for the most robust of the colts, the Triple Crown races are immensely tough, what with all the shipping and training and running. Risk handled all these matters perfectly. And as LeRoy Jolley, her trainer, said after the Belmont, "She ran a super, super race." Risk will rest now and probably be readied for the Alabama Stakes in August at Saratoga, a race for 3-year-old fillies. Will she meet the boys again? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Genuine Risk really doesn't need to do anything more to prove that she was, overall, better than this year's Triple Crown colts.