Funny Cide: How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Shieks and Bluebloods…and Won Audiobook (Free)

They had no business being there. These were up against million-dollar horses possessed by patricians, oilmen, Arab sheiks, and Hollywood makers. They were ten regular men, and everything they desired was to win a race. Instead, they won the hearts of America.

In 2003, a three-year-old using the unlikely name of Funny Cide became ‘the people’s horse,’ the unheralded New York-bred gelding who-in a period of war and financial jitters-inspired a nation by knocking from the champions and their millionaire about Funny Cide: How a Equine, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Couple of High School Buddies Took on the Shieks and Bluebloods…and Won owners and sweeping towards the brink from the Triple Crown.

Trained by a journeyman who’d spent over 30 years searching for ‘the one,’ ridden by a jockey fighting to come back after years of injuries and hard knocks, and owned with a strap of senior high school buddies from Sackets Harbor, NY, Funny Cide became a hero and media sensation.

Today, Sally Jenkins, award-winning co-author of Lance Armstrong’s #1 bestseller IT ISN’T About the Bicycle, tells the inside story from the Crazy Cide team’s fluctuations against overwhelming odds, illness, and even scandal, to capture the imagination of millions. It’s a fresh American traditional for the underdog in every of us.