Funny cide biography from who com

One of the most storied horses in thoroughbred racing history, Funny Cide, died this week at the age of 23.

Small in stature, the feisty chestnut was an unknown when he was entered into the Kentucky Derby in 2003.

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Funny Cide faced 12-1 odds — the definition of a longshot. A New York state-bred horse had never won the big race.

But when the gates opened on that May morning at Churchill Downs, Funny Cide ran strong.

"I could not believe my eyes," one of his co-owners, Harold Cring, recalled in a 2007 interview with North Country Public Radio.

"That's our horse out front.

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I kept waiting for something to fall apart."

Funny Cide held on to win. It was a life-altering moment for the horse's owners, a group of high school friends from a tiny town called Sacketts Harbor in northern New York who had taken up horse-racing as a hobby.

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