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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 it's 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.