Funny Cide (born
April 20,
2000) is a
Thoroughbred race horse bred in
New York from sire
Distorted Humor[?] and dam
Belle's Good Cide[?]. This chestnut
gelding, ridden by jockey
Jose Santos[?], won the
Kentucky Derby and
Preakness Stakes in
2003, but finished third in the
Belmont Stakes, behind
Empire Maker[?] and
Ten Most Wanted[?].
Funny Cide is the first New York-bred horse ever to win the Kentucky Derby, and the first gelding to win since Clyde van Dusen[?] in 1929.