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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Charles the Twelfth: winner of the St Leger Stakes in the year 1839. Cicero: winner of the 1905 Epsom Derby as the shortest-priced successful favourite in the history of the event; Cigar: champion in the 1990s who won 16 consecutive races; Citation: U.S. Triple Crown winner (1948); also won 16 consecutive major stakes races; first horse to earn ...