Funny Cide : How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Bluebloods ... and Won Hardcover - 2004
by Jenkins, Sally, Funny Cide Team Staff
- Used
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.
Written with Sally Jenkins, coauthor 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-a new American classic.
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- Title Funny Cide : How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Bluebloods ... and Won
- Author Jenkins, Sally, Funny Cide Team Staff
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 279
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date April 22, 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 12371418-6
- ISBN 9780399151798 / 0399151796
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.46 x 6.14 x 1.14 in (24.03 x 15.60 x 2.90 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Race horses - United States, Horsemen and horsewomen - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004044390
- Dewey Decimal Code 798.400
