Funny Cide
| Funny Cide | |
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Funny Cide at Saratoga, September 1, 2006
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| Sire | Distorted Humor |
| Grandsire | Forty Niner |
| Dam | Belle's Good Cide |
| Damsire | Slewacide |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 2000 |
| Country | USA |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | WinStar Farm |
| Owner | Sackatoga Stable |
| Trainer | Barclay Tagg |
| Record | 38: 11-6-8 |
| Earnings | $3,529,412 |
| Major wins | |
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Bertram F. Bongard Stakes (2002) Kentucky Derby (2003) Preakness Stakes (2003) |
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| Awards | |
| New York Breeders' Award for Champion Two-Year-Old (2002) U.S. Champion 3-Year-Old Male (2003) Champion New York Horse of the Year (2003 & 2004) NTRA "Moment of the Year" (2003) Big Sport of Turfdom Award (Sackatoga Stable 2003) Presidents' Award from New York Turf Writers (2004) New York Thoroughbred Breeders Award as the New York–bred horse of the decade. (2010) |
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| Honours | |
| Funny Cide Street in Napa, California Funny Cide written and performed by Blue Hand Luke. Funny Cide Stakes at Saratoga Race Course |
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| Last updated on February 16, 2011 | |
Bertram F. Bongard Stakes (2002)
Sleepy Hollow Stakes (2002)
Excelsior Breeders' Cup Handicap (2004)
Jockey Club Gold Cup (2004)
Kings Point Handicap (2006)
Dominion Day Stakes (Can., 2006)
Wadsworth Memorial Handicap (2007)
Funny Cide (foaled April 20, 2000) is a Thoroughbred race horse who won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in 2003. He is the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby and the first gelding to win since Clyde Van Dusen in 1929. He was an immensely popular horse and remains a fan favorite in retirement at the Kentucky Horse Park.
Funny Cide was bred at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, but was foaled at the McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbred Farm, owned by Joe and Anne McMahon in Saratoga Springs, New York. His sire is Distorted Humor, who was then an unproven sire at WinStar, struggling to attract good mares. Belle's Good Cide, an Oklahoma-bred granddaughter of Seattle Slew, was already at the farm, so was bred to him. She was then shipped to New York so her foal would be eligible for New York-bred races.
Funny Cide was part of Distorted Humor's first American crop when his stud fee was $12,500, dropping down the next year to $10,000. Due to the success of Funny Cide and the rest of his first crop, Distorted Humor's fee then rose to $20,000 in 2003. It would eventually go as high as $300,000 in 2008 for a live foal.
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