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The Funny Cide Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-old horses bred in New York, approved by the New York State-Bred Registry, and run at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. An ungraded stakes race, it is set at a distance of 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs on the dirt and currently offers a purse of $200,000.
Funny Cide was a two-time "New York–bred Horse of the Year". He retired with 11 wins from 38 starts with six second-place finishes and eight thirds and earnings of $3,529,412. [ 1 ] Funny Cide had the highest earnings of any New York -bred racehorse in history.
Bred in New York, Funny Cide won all three starts at age two in restricted stakes company and was named the New York bred champion two-year-old colt or gelding. [13] When moved to open stakes company at age three, he ran fifth in the Holy Bull Stakes to Offlee Wild, second to Peace Rules in the Louisiana Derby and second to Empire Maker in the ...
Funny Cide, the “Gutsy Gelding” who became a fan favorite after winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 2003, has died from complications of colic. Kentucky Horse Park, the Lexington farm ...
Sackatoga Stable's champion, Funny Cide Sackatoga Stable is an American Thoroughbred horse racing syndicate in Saratoga Springs, New York.They are best known as the owners of 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide and 2020 Belmont Stakes and Travers Stakes winner Tiz the Law.
The 2003 Preakness Stakes was the 128th running of the Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race. The race took place on May 17, 2003, and was televised in the United States on the NBC television network. Funny Cide, who was jockeyed by José A. Santos, won the race by nine and three quarter lengths over runner-up Midway Road. Approximate post ...
Ahead of the 2024 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 4, we look back at 10 Kentucky Derby winning horses with unique names we'll never forget.
His handlers then chose to rest the colt and did not run him in the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, which has become a common racing tactic when a horse does not win the first leg. Funny Cide won the Preakness Stakes by more than nine lengths and headed to New York's Belmont Park favored to become the first ...