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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.
Winner of first two legs of Triple Crown in 2003, he spent retirement as popular attraction in Kentucky Horse Park’s Hall of Champions.
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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 where Funny Cide lived for his final 15 years, confirmed the thoroughbred died Sunday, as did Sackatoga Stable, the group of 10 friends from a small town in upstate New York who owned the gelding. Funny Cide won 11 of 38 starts and earned $3,529,412 in his career.