How to reproduce :

job A with a downstream job B ; B configured to fail (exit 1) , with Retry build 1 time/1minute;
when previous Build of B was failure:

• build A
• B is built and fails (as expected)
  --> NO Retry is performed!!!

when previous Build of B was Success:

• build A
• B is built and fails (as expected)
  --> Retry is performed as expected !!