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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 (April 20, 2000 – July 16, 2023) was an American Thoroughbred champion racehorse who won the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.He was the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby.
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 ...
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.
Kentucky Horse Park, the Lexington farm where Funny Cide lived for his final 15 years, confirmed the thoroughbred died Sunday, as did Sackatoga Stable, the group of 10 friends from a small town in ...
Winner of first two legs of Triple Crown in 2003, he spent retirement as popular attraction in Kentucky Horse Park’s Hall of Champions. ‘What a ride.’ Second-oldest Kentucky Derby winner ...
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 ...
From the mare Weekend in Indy, a daughter of the 1992 U.S. Horse of the Year and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee A.P. Indy, Any Given Saturday was sired by the increasingly important stallion Distorted Humor, who produced 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Funny Cide.