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Funny Cide (April 20, 2000 – July 16, 2023) was an American Thoroughbred champion racehorse who won the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.He was the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby.
The Funny Cide Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-old horses bred in New York, approved by the New York State-Bred Registry, and run at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. An ungraded stakes race, it is set at a distance of 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs on the dirt and currently offers a purse of $200,000.
The race set a number of firsts. Funny Cide was the first gelding to win the race since Clyde Van Dusen in 1929. It was the first time a New York-bred had won the Kentucky Derby. It was the first win for Santos in seven attempts, and the first for trainer Barclay Tagg.
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Trainer Stephen A. DiMauro gave him his first job at a track and taught how to ride a race horse. His first mount was on September 29, 1980, and his first win was less than a month later aboard Good Grip at Meadowlands Racetrack. In 1981, Migliore won the Eclipse Award as the leading apprentice jockey at the age of 17.