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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 / the Funny Cide Team with Sally Jenkins.

Title
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 / the Funny Cide Team with Sally Jenkins.
Publication
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Jenkins, Sally
  • Funny Cide Team.
Description
279 p. ill.; 24 cm.
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foal -- The Odd Stranger -- Desperados and Weanlings -- The Sackets Six -- Yearling -- Pinhookers and Handicappers -- The Trainer -- The Horsewoman -- A Classic Horse -- The Derby -- The Triple Crown.
ISBN
0399151796 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2004044390
OCLC
54414619
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library