Funny Cide

In America in 2003, "Funny Cide" became 'the people's horse', the unheralded New York-bred gelding who inspired a nation by knocking off the champions and their multi-millionaire 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 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 is crammed with colourful characters - only one of which happened to be a horse. Written with Sally Jenkins, co-author of Lance Armstrong's number-one bestseller "It's Not About the Bike", "Funny Cide" tells the whole story - the parts we know and the parts we never suspected - as it follows the group's emotional ups and downs against overwhelming odds, illness and even scandal, to capture the imagination of millions. It is a book for the underdog in all of us.