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| 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide will take up residence at the Kentucky Horse Park. Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt |
From the Kentucky Horse Park
Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes (both gr. I) winner Funny Cide will become the newest resident of the Kentucky Horse Park, it was announced Nov. 26. Funny Cide, scheduled to arrive at the park Dec. 5, will join another Kentucky Derby winner, Alysheba, who came to the park in October.
Funny Cide (Distorted Humor–Belle’s Good Cide, by Slewacide) was bred by William Casner and Kenny Troutt’s WinStar Farm in a collaborative venture with McMahon Thoroughbreds of Saratoga Springs, New York where he was foaled, raised and then sold as a yearling for $22,000 at the August 2001 Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Preferred yearling sale. He was later purchased privately as a 2-year old by Sackatoga Stable for $75,000.
Funny Cide went on to earn $3,529,412 and an Eclipse Award as champion 3-year-old colt, becoming the highest-earning New York-bred in history for trainer Barclay Tagg. His nine stakes wins also included the prestigious Jockey Club Gold Cup (gr. I).
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