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If any other New York-based trainers call Feargal Lynch about riding in a stakes race at Monmouth Park in the near future there probably won’t be any hesitation on the jockey’s part to leave the Maryland circuit to do so.

Though its now contested in the Hawkeye State, the Cornhusker Handicap lives on at Prairie Meadows in suburban Des Moines.

Funny Cide was an unknown racehorse from New York state in 2003 when he came out of nowhere to win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. He died this week at the age of 23.

Jack Knowlton operating manager of Sackatoga Stable, reminisces about Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide, the popular New York-gelding who died last week at age 23.

Funny Cide, nicknamed the “Gutsy Gelding”, won two of US racing's Triple Crown races in 2003.

Funny Cide won 11 of 38 starts and earned $3,529,412 in his career before passing away at 23.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — 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. He was 23. Kentucky Horse Park, the Lexington farm where Funny Cide lived for his final 15 years, confirmed the thoroughbred died Sunday, as did Sackatoga […]

Article by Glenye Cain Oakford: In 2016, Glenye Cain Oakford visited the hugely popular gelding at the Kentucky Horse Park to report on his retirement for TRC. Following news of Funny Cide’s death over the weekend, we recall happier days with the horse whose exploits captured the nation’s imagination in 2003

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Editor’s Note: This is a story published on May 6 in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Funny Cide’s victory at the Kentucky Derby. Funny Cide died over the weekend.