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
by The Funny Cide Team with Sally JenkinsEdition: Large
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-08-13
Publisher(s): Thorndike Press
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Summary
Describes how an unheralded New York horse--trained by a journeyman, ridden by a hard-luck jockey, and owned by a tiny stable founded by a group of high-school buddies--beat the champions to win two of the three Triple Crown races.
Author Biography
Sally Jenkins, is an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post
Table of Contents
| Foal | |
| The Odd Stranger | p. 3 |
| Desperados and Weanlings | p. 24 |
| The Sackets Six | p. 51 |
| Yearling | |
| Pinhookers and Handicappers | p. 89 |
| The Trainer | p. 130 |
| The Horsewoman | p. 161 |
| A Classic Horse | |
| The Derby | p. 191 |
| The Triple Crown | p. 234 |
| Afterward | p. 271 |
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