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BarbaraLivingston(small-cropped).jpg) Fans
flock to Funny Cide
TIM ETHRIDGE STAFF WRITER
Evansville Courier & Press
Hundreds of fans filed past the
paddock to check out the now 9-year-old
Funny Cide, who raced until he was 7
winning more than $3.5 million and now
is retired to the Kentucky Horse Farm
near Lexington.
He's still a star for fans nationwide.
"Anywhere I go, all the time, people ask
me how he's doing," said Jack Knowlton,
one of the partners in the Sackatoga
Stable (named for the high school
classmates' home town of Sackets Harbor,
N.Y., and favorite track, Saratoga) who
purchased Funny Cide for $75,000 as a
2-year-old.
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Funny Cide markets new cider at Ellis
opening
By JEFFREY McMURRAY - Associated
Press Writer
Lexington Herald Leader
HENDERSON, Ky. -- Mint juleps might
be the drink of choice at the Kentucky
Derby, but one former winner is now
marketing his own beverage, substituting
apples for mint and leaving out the
bourbon.
Funny Cide, the 2003 Derby and Preakness
winner, posed for so many pictures
Saturday in the paddock at Ellis Park,
you'd almost think he was launching a
new marketing campaign. Turns out, he
was.
The gelding's appearance at the track's
opening day coincided with the official
rollout of Funny Cider, which is being
produced by Evans Orchards, located in
Georgetown, Ky., near the champion's new
home at the Kentucky Horse Park.
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