The press coverage of the 1980 Belmont was hilarious. Temperance Hill was described as "a lay-about who fell asleep in the paddock before the race". Another wrote that Genuine Risk got her revenge on "that evil little imp Cordero" when she left him and Codex back in the slop. The funniest was when one chauvinistic writer said he swore that he saw Genuine Risks "breasts heaving" as she tried to hold off Temperance Hill". Bobby Riggs would have loved that one.
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