Funny Cide: How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Blue Bloods...and Won

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2004. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Funny Cide (Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION VERY GOOD-2004 COPYRIGHT-) PUBLISHED BY G P PUTNAM SONS by Sally Jenkins In 2003, he became "the people's horse, " the unheralded New York-bred gelding who-in a time of war... Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Funny Cide (Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION VERY GOOD-2004 COPYRIGHT-) PUBLISHED BY G P PUTNAM SONS by Sally Jenkins In 2003, he became "the people's horse, " the unheralded New York-bred gelding who-in a time of war and economic jitters-inspired a nation by knocking off the champions and their multimillionaire owners and sweeping to the brink of the Triple Crown. Trained by a journeyman who had been knocking around racing for more than thirty years, ridden by a hard-luck jockey, and owned by a tiny stable founded by a band of high school buddies from Sackets Harbor, NY (pop: 1, 386), who tossed in a few thousand dollars each and decided to follow their dream, Funny Cide became a blue-collar hero with a bit, his story crammed with colorful characters-only one of which happened to be a horse.