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 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399151796 ISBN 13: 9780399151798

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2004

Synopsis

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 from Sackets Harbor--beat the champions and their multimillionaire owners to sweep to the brink of the Triple Crown. 250,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Sackatoga Stable is owned by ten people, led by managing partner Jackson Knowlton, whose jobs range from catering to construction to health care. Unlike with Funny Cide's million-dollar brethren, who make a quick killing and then get retired to stud, they plan to race their horse for all his fans to see as long as he is healthy and happy-conceivably for years to come.

Sally Jenkins is an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post, and is the coauthor of the bestselling It's Not About the Bike and Every Second Counts, written with Lance Armstrong.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0399151796
• ISBN 13: 9780399151798
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Jenkins Sally