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2007 News Stories
  • Fans cheer Funny Cide to victory at Finger Lakes
    Kevin Oklobzija, Staff writer 
    Democrat & Chronicle
    July 5, 2007

     FARMINGTON — The roar began the moment Funny Cide began charging around the final turn, a roar not heard at Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack in at least two decades and maybe ever. 

    By the time the 2003 Kentucky Derby winner reached mid-stretch, the noise from the crowd sounded more like a jet was taking off.

    And when Funny Cide charged to the lead and galloped off to win the Wadsworth Memorial Handicap in the emphatic fashion of a champion, fans from age 8 to 80, perhaps as many as 12,000 of them, were screaming their approval. 

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  • Funny Cide wins Wadsworth Memorial Handicap
    By: Web Staff
    Capital News 9
    July 5, 2007 

     Saratoga's Funny Cide made a triumphant return to New York racing Wednesday.
     
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  • Funny Cide Responds to Hero's Welcome
    By JOHN KEKIS, AP Sports Writer
    The Blood-Horse

    Funny Cide received a regal reception Wednesday and responded like a champion.

    Four years removed from making a run at a Triple Crown, even-money choice Funny Cide returned to the winner's circle for trainer Barclay Tagg at a track far removed from the majesty of Churchill Downs.

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2006 News Stories
  • Jack Knowlton to be Keynote Speaker at TTA Banquet
    (Edited press release)
    The Bloodhorse

     Sackatoga Stable managing partner Jack Knowlton has accepted an invitation to be the keynote speaker at the Texas Thoroughbred Association's 2007 annual conference and awards banquet. The event is set for Jan. 19-20 at the Doubletree Hotel in Austin.
      
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  • Funny Cide races at Saratoga
    By: Curtis Schick
    Capital News 9

     "It shows that people really do follow this horse, and they are interested in him," said Funny Cide's co-owner Jack Knowlton.

    It's homecoming for a local legend. Funny Cide returned to Saratoga, and it was a day of firsts. He tried to get his first win at the Spa. But, it was also the first running of the Woodward at Saratoga.
      
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  • The Ride Goes On 
    By Donna Ditota, Staff writer 
    The Post-Standard 

     Watertown Harold Cring ordered them from another country. The 7-by-7 diamond-shaped tiles, made in Mexico, portray all the pertinent information from that fateful day in May, when a racehorse transformed the lives of six childhood friends. 

    Funny Cide gallops through a corner of each specially made tile, his 2003 Kentucky Derby victory memorialized in clay. Cring ordered four of them and had them installed in the shower of his remodeled bathroom. The newly appointed room, dressed in the Sackets Harbor High colors of gray and maroon, had been discussed among Cring's Sackatoga Stable partners.  
      
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  • Funny Cide Preps for Woodward With Bullet Work
    by Blood-Horse Staff
    The Blood-Horse

     Funny Cide, who has been the pride of Sackatoga Stable, New York and Saratoga, put in the best workout for five furlongs over Saratoga's main track in 1:00, breezing, Thursday morning. 
      
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  • Funny Cide getting stronger at Saratoga
    The Thoroughbred Times

     Sackatoga Stable's dual classic winner Funny Cide took another step toward a likely start in the Woodward Stakes (G1) with another solid five-furlong work in 1:00.03 handily at Saratoga Race Course on Friday. 
      
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  • Funny Cide may run at Saratoga 
    Knowlton would like to see gelding in Woodward 
    By TIM WILKIN, Staff writer 
    The Times Union

     SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Of course, Jack Knowlton and the gang want to see Funny Cide run at Saratoga. Maybe they'll get their wish.
      
    The 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner was out getting his daily exercise on the training track near the Spa backstretch Wednesday morning under the watchful eye of trainer Barclay Tagg. 
      
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  • Funny Cide possible for Woodward
    The Thoroughbred Times

     After registering his first graded stakes win in 21 months in the Dominion Day Stakes (Can-G3) on July 1 at Woodbine, Funny Cide might move back into Grade 1 company in the Woodward Stakes (G1) on September 2 at Saratoga Race Course.

    Trainer Barclay Tagg would prefer to start the six-year-old Distorted Humor gelding in a lighter spot, but he has not found a suitable one for the 2003 champion three-year-old male and Kentucky Derby (G1) winner.
      
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  • Funny Cide gets back on track 
    By RON GIERKINK 
    Daily Racing Form

     ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Funny Cide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby winner, won his first start north of the border Saturday at Woodbine in the $200,800 Dominion Day Stakes.
     
    Jockey Richard Migliore let Funny Cide roll from the start, and they set fractions of 23.62 seconds, 47.14, and 1:11.48. Summer Book, Cryptograph, and Arch Hall all stalked the pace, and Cryptograph joined Funny Cide up front on the far turn.
      
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  • Funny Cide Crosses Border to Win Dominion Day
    The Bloodhorse

     (from Woodbine report)
    Dual Classic winner Funny Cide made his first race outside of the United States a winning one, taking Saturday's $200,000 Dominion Day Stakes (Can-III) at Woodbine by 1 1/2 lengths.
    The Barclay Tagg trainee, sent off as the 8-5 favorite, became the first Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner to triumph at the Toronto oval since Secretariat achieved the feat in 1973. Funny Cide won both the Derby and Preakness (gr. I) in 2003.
      
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  • Front-running Funny Cide wins Dominion Day in Canadian debut
    The Thoroughbred Times

     Champion Funny Cide brought racing fans at Woodbine to their feet on Saturday as he led from start to finish to win in his Canadian debut in the $179,855 Dominion Day Handicap (Can-G3).

    With Richard Migliore in the leathers, Funny Cide set a reserved pace while being tracked by Summer Book and Cryptograph and led by 2½ lengths through the first half-mile. Funny Cide quickened his pace on the far turn as Cryptograph moved ahead to challenge. 
      
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  • The Funny Cide Guys
    Three years ago six high school buddies reigned over the sport of kings. They're still horsing around 
    Sports Illustrated

    One morning in June, J.P. Constance was rummaging through a hardware store near his hometown of Sackets Harbor, N.Y., when a voice trilled across the aisles. "How is Funny Cide doing?" asked a woman he had never seen before. Constance, 58, recalled the encounter with a laugh. "Thank goodness," he said. "I thought the world had passed us by."

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  • "A HORSE NAMED FUNNY CIDE" Released 
    Sackatoga Stable 

     The first children's book about Funny Cide was released on April 20th.  "A Horse Named Funny Cide" was written by The Funny Cide Team and illustrated by Barry Moser.

    "Sally Jenkin's adult book, is well adapted for young readers with Moser's art.  Will appeal to horse fans of all ages!"
    -Kirkus Reviews
       
    "Funny Cide's Courageous run won him a nation of fans and the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year.  With Barry Moser's  breathtaking illustrations bringing his story to life, A Horse Name Funny Cide is the perfect book for horse lovers of all ages.
    -G.P. Putnam's Sons
     
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  • Derby hero Funny Cide in Dominion Day at Woodbine 
    Woodbine Entertainment

     TORONTO – Funny Cide, who captured two jewels in the 2003 U.S. Triple Crown Series, headlines Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Dominion Day Stakes at Woodbine.

    A son of Distorted Humor, Funny Cide took the racing world by storm three years ago, winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes in impressive fashion, before finishing third to Empire Maker in the Belmont Stakes.

    A lifetime winner of nine races from 30 starts, the New York-bred gelding, trained by Barclay Tagg, will venture outside of the United States for the first time in his career.

    “We were looking for a nice race with a nice purse,” said Jack Knowlton, managing partner of Sackatoga Stable. “There aren’t too many 1 ¼-mile races out there, so this worked out great. It’s not a tough ship to Woodbine and he’s doing really well these days.”
      
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  • Funny Cide adds holiday sparkle 
    By BILL TALLON
    The Daily Racing Form

     ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Funny Cide might not be the horse he once was, but he'll always be a Kentucky Derby winner.
    And that's why Funny Cide, despite being 6 years old and having had 23 starts since his 2003 Kentucky Derby triumph, will be in the spotlight when he makes his first Canadian appearance in Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Dominion Day here at Woodbine. 
      
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  • Funny Cide tackles Woodbine
    The Buffalo News

     TORONTO - Funny Cide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner and richest New York-bred thoroughbred ever, will race at Woodbine on Saturday. 
      
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  • Funny Cide is off to the races
    News 10 Now

     Sackets Harbor's favorite race horse is going back to the tracks. Funny Cide will race again this Saturday, July 1st.
      
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  • Funny Cide snaps skid with determined Kings Point win
    The Thoroughbred Times

     Funny Cide displayed the determination of a dual classic winner and halted an eight-race winless streak with a three-quarter-length win in the $65,625 Kings Point Handicap on Sunday at Aqueduct.  
      
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  • Funny Cide ends drought 
    Captures Kings Point to end eight- race slump 
    Staff and wire reports 
    The Times Union

     NEW YORK -- Funny Cide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, ended an eight-race losing streak with a victory Sunday in the $65,000 Kings Point Stakes at Aqueduct.
      
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  • FUNNY CIDE GUTS OUT WIN
    By JOHN DaSILVA
    New York Post

     The gutsy gelding Funny Cide showed everyone that he still has the will to win as he was passed by Gold and Roses at the top of the stretch but then came back again to win the $65,625 Kings Point Handicap. Richard Migliore guided the popular gelding to victory, running the mile and an eighth in 1:50.47.
      
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  • Keep Your Funny Cide Up As New York's Hero Returns To Big A 
    By NYRA Press Office

     Aqueduct Racetrack ends its Winter/Spring season on Sunday, April 30th and one of its biggest stars will be around for the Grand Finale.

    Sackatoga Stable's Funny Cide, the gritty chestnut gelding who, en route to winning the Eclipse Award as the three-year-old champion of 2003, became the first New York-bred to win the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, is scheduled to appear in the day's feature event, the $65,000-added Kings Point Handicap for New York-breds at nine furlongs.

    Also on the 10-race card will be the re-scheduled $100,000 Park Avenue Division (fillies) and $100,000 Times Square Division (colts and geldings) for three-year-olds at seven furlongs that are part of the New York Stallion Stakes. Those two races were originally scheduled for last Sunday, but moved when bad weather and track conditions forced cancellation of the races after the third race.

    Funny Cide, who also won the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup in 2004, returned here on April 1st, where he dug in gamely but came up just short of West Virginia in the Grade 3 Excelsior Breeders' Cup Handicap. Wednesday morning at Belmont Park, he breezed five furlongs in 1:00 and looks ready to add to the more than $3.2 million he has earned in his 28-race career under trainer Barclay Tagg.

    Funny Cide will again be ridden by jockey Richard Migliore. The popular New York jockey is in the midst of a comeback from a broken leg and other injures suffered in a freak paddock accident at Belmont Park last fall. 

    Underscoring Funny Cide's appearance on Sunday will be a signing by Jack Knowlton, Managing Partner of Sackatoga Stable, of the children's book A Horse Named Funny Cide, by the Funny Cide Team. The book is illustrated by Barry Moser and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group. The book signing will be from noon to 2 p.m. and will be held outside of the NYRA Store in the Clubhouse. A Horse Named Funny Cide may be purchased at the NYRA Store.

    There is no racing on Monday or Tuesday, May 1-2. The New York Racing Association season will resume on Wednesday, May 3 at Belmont Park with the opening of Belmont Park's 59-day Spring/Summer Meet.
     
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  • Knowlton is Keeping the Faith
    By TIM WILKIN, Staff writer 
    The Times Union
    First published: 
    Tuesday, January 10, 2006  

     Not giving up: Funny Cide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, finished a tired seventh Saturday in his seasonal debut, but Jack Knowlton, the managing partner of Sackatoga Stables, is keeping the faith.

    He can take solace in the fact Funny Cide was making his first start since last July and coming off back problems. He also can toss the effort because Funny Cide was running in a six-furlong race at Gulfstream Park, not his ideal distance. And the winner, the Steve Asmussen-trained Gaff, was timed in a quick 1:08.50.

    "We hope this served its purpose as a good tightener for him," Knowlton said Monday from Florida.

    The winter goal for Funny Cide had been the $500,000, 1 1/8 -mile Donn Handicap, also at Gulfstream, on Feb. 4. He still might make that race but no decision has been made. Knowlton, trainer Barclay Tagg and the rest of the Funny Cide crew want to make sure they make the right move with the 6-year-old gelding.

    Funny Cide hasn't won a race since the Jockey Club Gold Cup on Oct. 2, 2004. Since then he has finished off the board in all five of his starts, beaten a combined 65 lengths. He'll soon be an afterthought if he doesn't start winning.

    "We would love to make the Donn Handicap," Knowlton said. "But not making it would not be the season. If we decided to back down and not go to a Grade I for his next race and look for something softer, that would be OK too. There are going to be a lot of good races this year."
      
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  • Funny Cide Preps for 2006
    Gulfstream Notes 

     Sackatoga Stable’s Funny Cide, one of the nation’s most popular horses in recent years but a disappointment during the 2005 campaign, continues to show improvement under trainer Barclay Tagg’s patient handling at Gulfstream Park.

    The Kentucky Derby-Preakness winner and 3-year-old champion of 2003 worked five furlongs in :58 1/5, handily, Friday morning at Gulfstream. Tagg’s assistant and Funny Cide’s regular exercise ride, Robin Smullen, was aboard for the trip.

    Tagg has indicated that the six-furlong Mr. Prospector Handicap Jan. 7 may serve as Funny Cide’s return to the races. The Grade 3 Mr. Prospector and Hal’s Hope handicaps and the Aventura Stakes make up the Spectacular Saturday I card at Gulfstream, opening weekend of the meet.

    The Mr. Prospector carries a $100,000 purse and may in turn serve as a prep for the $500,000 Donn Handicap (G1) at a mile and an eighth. The Donn is the marquee event of the Spectacular Saturday II card Feb. 4.

    Funny Cide suffered from an aching back the past year and it showed in his performances: only three starts with a fourth in the Grade 1 Pimlico Special his best showing. In his career, the popular New York-bred gelding has won eight of 24 starts with earnings of $3.2 million. 

    He’s had three starts at Gulfstream. He won his 2004 bow at Gulfstream, then finished second to Medaglia d’Oro in the Donn Handicap (G1) later that year. He was sixth the year before in Offlee Wild’s Holy Bull Stakes.

    Joining Funny Cide on the work tab was Good Reward, a two-time Grade 1 winner on the turf trained by Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey.

    Good Reward breezed four furlongs in :48 4/5. 

    Good Reward upset Artie Schiller in the Manhattan (G1) at Belmont Park last June at 14-1. The previous autumn he went out to California and upset (16-1) the Hollywood Derby at Hollywood Park. The Phipps Stable homebred is a son of Storm Cat out of Heavenly Prize, the Eclipse Award-winning 3-year-old filly of 1994.
      
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  • Funny Cide runs second, encourages connections
    ASSOCIATED PRESS

     Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide failed to find the winner's circle again, finishing second behind Sir Greeley in a $46,000 allowance race at Gulfstream Park yesterday in Hallandale Beach, Fla. 
      
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  • Funny Cide offers new reason to hope 
    Solid second-place finish best since October 2004 
    Times Union

     For the first time in a long time, 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide showed he still wants to run. 
      
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  • Funny Cide, Sun King to meet in Gulfstream allowance
    Thoroughbred Times 

     Dual classic winner Funny Cide and Grade 2 winner Sun King are entered in a one-mile allowance/optional claiming race on Thursday at Gulfstream Park. 
      
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  • Funny Cide races today in Grade III 
    Gelding's 6-year-old season to open with $100,000 stakes at Gulfstream 
    By TIM WILKIN, Staff writer 
    The Times Union

    Last year was a bust for Funny Cide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner. The 6-year-old Saratoga-born gelding will try to start anew today when he runs in the Grade III, $100,000 Mr. Prospector Handicap at Gulfstream Park.

    The race will be shown live on ESPNews at approximately 4:44 p.m.
      
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  • Funny Cide returns today at Gulfstream 
    From Special Dispatches
    The Courier-Journal

    Funny Cide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness champion, will make his first start in six months today in the $100,000, Grade III Mr. Prospector Handicap at Gulfstream. 

    The gelding will become the first Derby winner to race at age 6 since Gato del Sol in 1985.
      
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  • Funny Cide Faces Seven in Mr. Prospector Handicap
    by Blood-Horse Staff

    Edited Gulfstream Park report
    Sackatoga Stable's 2003 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) and Preakness Stakes (gr. I) hero Funny Cide makes his debut as a 6-year-old in the $100,000 Mr. Prospector Handicap (gr. III) at Gulfstream Park Saturday.

    Funny Cide drew the rail and will be ridden by Edgar Prado in a field of eight older horses entered in the six-furlong Mr. Prospector, which will share the spotlight on the 10-race card with renewals of the $125,000 Aventura Stakes for 3-year-olds at a mile and the $100,000 Hal's Hope Handicap (gr. III) for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles.
      
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  • Funny Cide to make 2006 debut in sprint 
    By MIKE WELSCH 
    The Daily Racing Form

     HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Funny Cide hasn't won a race since October 2004 yet his name remains one of the most recognizable in the sport, still conjuring memories of his outstanding 3-year-old campaign, highlighted by victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. 
      
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  • Funny Cide Back to Work at Gulfstream
    Sackatoga Stable

    Funny Cide, turned in     another great workout today, breezing four furlongs in :46.40 at Gulfstream Park.
      
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  • Funny Cide gets ready for Gulfstream
    Daily Racing Form

    Funny Cide, who has not started since his sixth-place finish in the Suburban Handicap on July 2, is back training on a regular basis and could return to action as early as the opening week of the Gulfstream Park meet, trainer Barclay Tagg reported Wednesday.

    "He worked three furlongs before leaving Belmont and a half-mile here on Monday morning," said Tagg.  "He's doing great, and God willing I'll be able to work him now every six days.  There's a six-furlong race on Jan. 7, the Mr. Prospector, which would set him up nicely for the Donn Handicap."

    The Grade 1 Donn Handicap will be run on Feb. 4.

    Funny Cide, who made only three starts last season, was sent to the sidelines because of a back injury that Tagg said he first sustained in the Brooklyn Handicap and then further aggravated in the Suburban.

    "He just wasn't right, so we gave him the time off," Tagg said.  "I'm not going to force the issue with him right now.  If we can make the Donn, great.  If not, there are plenty of other races later in the year."
      
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2005 News Stories
  • Funny Cide Sidelined; Being Readied for Gulfstream Meet
    by Steve Haskin
    The Blood-Horse

    Sackatoga Stable's Funny Cide, who has been plagued by a recurring sore back since early July, will be given some time off on the advice of veterinarians, and will point for a winter campaign at Gulfstream Park, trainer Barclay Tagg said Tuesday.
      
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  • Funny Cide done till next year 
    By DAVID GRENING
    The Daily Racing Form

    ELMONT, N.Y. - Funny Cide's troubled 5-year-old season is over.
    A recurring back problem has forced trainer Barclay Tagg to pull Funny Cide out of training for a minimum of 30 days. He will be pointed to a 6-year-old campaign.
      
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  • Funny Cide in Suburban with Bailey 
    The Houston Chronicle

    Elmont, NY (Sports Network) - Former Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Funny Cide will face seven rivals in Saturday's $500,000 Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park. The 1 1/4 mile race will mark Jerry Bailey's first ride aboard the five-year-old gelding. 
     
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  • Funny Cide Works
    By: David Grening
    CBS Sportsline

    Funny Cide worked five furlongs in 1:00.61 Thursday morning over Belmont Park's main track. Funny Cide has not raced since finishing sixth in the Grade 1 Suburban on July 2. His connections are hoping to find a race for him in the next two weeks as a possible prep for the Jockey Club Gold Cup. 
     
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  • Our Local Hero, Funny Cide, Was the Star
    The Saratogian
    By: Eric DeGrechie

    Our local hero, Funny Cide, was the star of the night once again as he took home Horse of the Year and top Older Horse awards.

    The Sackatoga Stable crew was in attendance as their life-changing ride continues at full steam.

    I've seen these guys at various functions countless times over the last two years and they're always smiling. This is a happy group and it's contagious whenever you're around them.

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  • Two more wins for Funny Cide
    State breeders honor New York's richest racer
    The Times Union
    By MATT GRAVES, Staff writer

    COLONIE -- Make it 5-for-5 with two Horse of the Year awards for the richest graduate of the New York breeding program.

    Sackatoga Stable's Funny Cide, who won the Grade I Jockey Club Gold Cup last year at Belmont Park, earned his second consecutive Horse of the Year honor and fifth plaque overall to highlight the 25th annual New York Thoroughbred Breeders awards dinner Monday night at the Desmond.
     
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  • Winners on the page and winners off it
    Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

    ... Always readable, often hilarious, this is the warm-hearted story of Funny Cide, an unknown New York-bred gelding, owned by a group of inexperienced, amateur ...

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  • Movie will give Sackets Harbor national attention
    By: Amy Ohler, News 10 Now Web Staff

    Sackets Harbor may be in the spotlight again. In April a book was released about the horse Funny Cide.

    And now, a made for television movie on Funny Cide is in the works.

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  • Funny Cide movie in the works
    By: Capital News 9 web staff

    A Spa City favorite could be coming to a TV screen near you.

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  • Funny Cide movie scheduled for spring production
    The Thoroughbred Times

    Production of a Turner Network Television movie on champion and dual classic winner Funny Cide is scheduled to begin next spring    .

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  • Casting call for Funny Cide
    By: Matt Graves
    The Times Union

    In case anybody's listening, I'd like to offer my services to TNT to serve as casting director for the upcoming movie version of Sally Jenkins' book on Funny Cide. I'll even do it pro bono.

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  • Another 'Cide' of racing
    Denise Martin, STAFF
    Yahoo News

    TNT is developing an original movie based on the book "Funny Cide," the true story of one of the most celebrated horseracing teams in history.

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  • TV Film on Funny Cide Slated
    by Lenny Shulman
    The Blood-Horse

    The TNT television network is said to be developing an original TV movie based on the book "Funny Cide."
    The book chronicles the story of the 2003 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) and Preakness (gr. I) winner, and the Sackatoga Stable group of mostly upstate New York residents that own him. Sportwriter Sally Jenkins penned the book.

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  • TNT Runs for the Roses with 'Funny Cide'
    Zap2it.com

    LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) A movie about Funny Cide, the horse that nearly won the 2003 Triple Crown, has become part of TNT's stable.
     
    "Funny Cide" will detail the story of how a group of high school friends pitched into purchase a lightly regarded gelding, and the horse's run at the first Triple Crown since 1978. The film will be based on a book by Washington Post sportswriter Sally Jenkins.

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  • Owners love Funny Cide of life
    By Ray Buck
    Star-Telegram Staff Writer
    The Star-Telegram (Subscription)

    WYNDHAM ANATOLE TO LONE STAR PARK -- The yellow school bus crawled into the Breeders' Cup compound, carrying the Funny Cide connection, about 80 passengers in all, packed to the yellow rooftop.

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  • Last laugh
    He'll never be a stud, but Funny Cide is still a superstar -- and a millionaire
    By Ray Buck
    Star-Telegram Staff Writer
     
    If horses could talk, Funny Cide would make ... well, a fun interview.

    He has his own book, his own Web site, his own bobblehead, an assortment of souvenir caps and T-shirts for sale ... even a best-selling beer named after him: Funny Cide Lite.

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  • Funny Cide to skip stakes 
    Knowlton hoping to enter colt in allowance races 
    By TIM WILKIN, Staff writer
    The Times Union 
     
    For a long time, Jack Knowlton dreamed of seeing Funny Cide winning a big race at Saratoga Race Course. The Whitney Handicap was first on his wish list. 
     
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  • Belmont Park 
    Bailey to ride Funny Cide 
    By DAVID GRENING 
    The Daily Racing Form

    ELMONT, N.Y. - Jerry Bailey, the jockey who denied Funny Cide the 2003 Triple Crown when he rode Empire Maker to victory in the Belmont Stakes, will be the new rider of Funny Cide. Bailey will ride Funny Cide in his next start, which is scheduled to be the $500,000 Suburban Handicap here on July 2.
     
    "It's always great to get an opportunity to ride a good horse," Bailey said. "I do know him about as well as you can know a horse without riding him. I know what he likes and what he doesn't like. He's certainly very consistent - he's a tough horse, you can never count him out."

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  • Funny Cide handlers hire Bailey 
    By TIM WILKIN, Staff writer 
    The Times Union

    Jose Santos, the regular jockey for Funny Cide, is out.

    Santos, who has ridden the popular gelding in 21 of his 23 career starts, has been fired by trainer Barclay Tagg and Sackatoga Stable, the group that owns the horse.
      
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  • Belmont Park 
    Bailey to ride Funny Cide 
    By DAVID GRENING 
    The Daily Racing Form

    ELMONT, N.Y. - Jerry Bailey, the jockey who denied Funny Cide the 2003 Triple Crown when he rode Empire Maker to victory in the Belmont Stakes, will be the new rider of Funny Cide. Bailey will ride Funny Cide in his next start, which is scheduled to be the $500,000 Suburban Handicap here on July 2.
     
    "It's always great to get an opportunity to ride a good horse," Bailey said. "I do know him about as well as you can know a horse without riding him. I know what he likes and what he doesn't like. He's certainly very consistent - he's a tough horse, you can never count him out."

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  • Brooklyn maybe next for Funny Cide
    MSNBC
     
         Fans may get to see two Kentucky Derby winners run on the same card on June 11.

    While this year's Kentucky Derby winner, Giacomo, is being pointed to the Belmont Stakes, the 2003 Kentucky Derby winner, Funny Cide, is likely to make his next start in the $250,000 Brooklyn Handicap on the same day. Funny Cide ran fourth in Friday's Pimlico Special, his first start in seven months.
     
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  • Kentucky Derby champ Funny Cide returns to site of his Preakness triumph 
    From Special Dispatches
    The Courier-Journal 
     
         Funny Cide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby champ, heads a field of eight for today's $500,000, Grade I Pimlico Special.
      
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  • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    Notebook: Funny Cide back racing
    By John Grupp
    TRIBUNE-REVIEW
     
     Funny Cide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby winner, highlights the field in today's Grade I Pimlico Special.
       
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  • Funny Cide Heads Solid Field in Pimlico 
    By DAVID GINSBURG, AP Sports Writer 
     
         BALTIMORE - One year later than planned, Funny Cide returns to the scene of his 2003 Preakness victory to run in the Pimlico Special. 

    The 5-year-old was a late scratch from the Grade 1 Special last year because he had a respiratory condition, and trainer Barclay Tagg was hesitant to test him in the excessive heat.
      
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  • THE INSIDE TRACK
    By: PAUL MORAN
    Newsday.com: The Inside Track 
     
         Funny Cide, who put himself in position to sweep the Triple Crown with a dominant victory in the 2003 Preakness, returns to Pimlico on Friday to make his seasonal debut in the Grade I Pimlico Special.
       
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  • Funny Cide ready for 2005 debut
    Ex-Triple Crown threat headlines outstanding Pimlico Special
    Daily Racing Form
     
         BALTIMORE - The Preakness Stakes on Saturday might be drawing the most interest this week at Pimlico, but it could be argued that the best race of the week will be run the day before, when an outstanding field of older horses, headed by Funny Cide, competes in the Grade 1, $500,000 Pimlico Special.

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  • Pimlico Special marks Funny Cide's '05 debut 
    By JAY PRIVMAN 
    The Daily Racing Form
     
     BALTIMORE - The Preakness Stakes on Saturday might be drawing the most interest this week at Pimlico, but it could be argued that the best race of the week will be run the day before, when an outstanding field of older horses, headed by Funny Cide, competes in the Grade 1, $500,000 Pimlico Special. 

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  • Funny Cide returns to action in Pimlico Special
    Brisnet.com
     
     Champion FUNNY CIDE (Distorted Humor) will make his seasonal debut in Friday's $500,000 Pimlico Special (G1). The five-year-old will return to the scene of his 9 3/4-length romp in the 2003 Preakness S. (G1). That year, the Barclay Tagg trainee won the Kentucky Derby (G1) but was denied the final jewel of the Triple Crown when running third in the Belmont S. (G1). He was later named champion three-year-old.

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  • Funny Cide returns in deep Pimlico Special 
    The Thoroughbred Times
     
     Sackatoga Stable’s Funny Cide will return to the site of his romp in the 2003 Preakness Stakes (G1) for his seasonal debut on Friday as the lone Grade 1 winner in a deep field of nine for the $500,000 Pimlico Special Handicap (G1) at Pimlico Race Course. 
     
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  • Funny Cide expected to return soon
    Sports Illustrated
     
         NEW YORK (AP) -- Funny Cide, the gelding who captured the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, will likely make his season debut on May 1 at Aqueduct.

    The target: the $75,000 King's Point Handicap, a race restricted to horses bred in New York. The King's Point would be a prep for the main objective--the Grade 1, $500,000 Pimlico Special at Pimlico on May 20th.
     
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  • Funny Cide expected to return soon
    Sports Illustrated
     
         NEW YORK (AP) -- Funny Cide, the gelding who captured the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, will likely make his season debut on May 1 at Aqueduct.

    The target: the $75,000 King's Point Handicap, a race restricted to horses bred in New York. The King's Point would be a prep for the main objective--the Grade 1, $500,000 Pimlico Special at Pimlico on May 20th.
     
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  • Funny Cide Breezes in Return to Belmont
    (from NYRA notes)
    The Blood-Horse

    Sackatoga Stable's 5-year-old Funny Cide, back at Belmont Park after a winter in Florida, breezed six furlongs in a bullet 1:13 Friday on the fast main track under trainer Barclay Tagg's assistant, Robin Smullen.

    "It was a very good work for him, and he did it the right way, going his first quarter in :24 4/5," Smullen said. "He got in around 11 a.m. on Monday, he jogged Tuesday and Wednesday, galloped on Thursday, and had this nice work today. He's is doing very well."
     
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  • Funny Cide Back to Work at Gulfstream
    by Steve Haskin
    The Blood-Horse

         Sackatoga Stable's Funny Cide, who hasn't run since the Breeders' Cup Classic - Powered by Dodge (gr. I), turned in his first work of the year, breezing three furlongs in :36 3/5 Saturday at Gulfstream Park with regular exercise rider Robin Smullen aboard.

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  • Funny Cide Back on Track
    By Terri McKenna
    Sackatoga Stable

    Funny Cide, was back on track today with a fast workout on Gulfstream Parks' Dirt Track.  Funny Cide breezed through 3 furlongs with a final time of     :36.60.

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  • Funny Cide Newest Inductee to Garden of Champions
    By Terrill Malone
    Gulfstream Park

    Funny Cide, one of the most popular thoroughbreds of recent times, will be inducted into Gulfstream Park’s Garden of Champions on March 5, Spectacular Saturday III.

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  • Funny Cide to be inducted into Gulfstream’s Garden of Champions
    The Thoroughbred Times

    Champion and dual classic winner Funny Cide will be inducted on March 5 into Gulfstream Park’s Garden of Champions, dedicated to champions who have raced at the Hallandale Beach, Florida, track since 1944.

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  • Funny Cide back on the track
    MSNBC Horse Racing

    Funny Cide, who remains among the most popular horses in training, is finally back to the track after being given several months of well deserved rest by trainer Barclay Tagg. A 5-year-old New York-bred, Funny Cide gained instant notoriety after winning the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness and has earned more than $3.1 million for his owners, the Sackatoga Stable.

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  • FUNNY CIDE JOCKEY NOMINATED TO HALL OF FAME
    Newswatch 50 - WWTI News

    Jockey Jose Santos, who rode Funny Cide to wins in the 2003 Preakness and Kentucky Derby, is on the list of 20 candidates nominated for induction into thoroughbred racing's Hall of Fame.
     
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  • FUNNY CIDE HEADS NORTH
    By Terri McKenna
    Sackatoga Stable

         Funny Cide was shipped his winter home at Gulfstream to his spring home at Belmont.  Workouts will resume over the coming days.
     
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  • FUNNY CIDE HAS ANOTHER GREAT WORKOUT
    By Terri McKenna
    Sackatoga Stable

         Funny Cide turned in another great workout today, breezing four furlongs in :47.40,at Gulfstream Park.

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  • Santos, Maple, Zito, S. Charm lead slate
    FOXSports.com
    Associated Press

         Santos, a four-time earnings leader nationwide, helped propel Funny Cide onto the national scene in 2003, riding to victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness before his shot at the Triple