2000 in horse racing

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Chapters: 2000 racehorse births, 2000 racehorse deaths, Starcraft, Funny Cide, Kauto Star, Sublimity, Soviet Song, Denman, Blacks A Fake, 2000 Grand National, Ghostzapper, Halo, 2000 Epsom Derby, Peace Rules, Southern Image, L'Enjoleur, Bold Forbes, Viking Flagship, Saint Liam, Green Dancer, Intercontinental, My Way de Solzen, Elvstroem, Roar Emotion, Empire Maker, Midway Road, Go And Go, Arcalis, Tony Bin, Golden Act, Vindication, Leroidesanimaux, Refuse To Bend, Exotic Dancer, 2000 Cheltenham Gold Cup, Roses in May, Alleged, Cloudy's Knight, 2000 Kentucky Derby, Dalakhani, Haiseiko, Storm Flag Flying, Six Perfections, Cryptocloser, Offlee Wild, Vengeance of Rain, 2000 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Don't Push It, Casual Look, Mobil, Chic, Sensational, Wando, Reset, New Seeker, Grand Zulu, Cut The Cake, Cajun Beat, Mon Mome, Abercrombie, Slewacide, Vallée Enchantée, 2000 Melbourne Cup, Dansert Maestro, Kris Kin, Glamour Puss, Pride, On A Jeune, Nationalore, Grozny, Spanish Fern. Excerpt: Funny Cide (foaled April 20, 2000) is a Thoroughbred race horse who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes in 2003. He is the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby and the first gelding to win since Clyde Van Dusen in 1929. Bred at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, Funny Cide was foaled at the McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbred Farm, owned by Joe and Anne McMahon in Saratoga Springs, New York. By Distorted Humor (a Mr. Prospector-line sire), he is out of the winning (but short-lived) Belle's Good Cide by Slewacide, in turn by Seattle Slew. Joe and Anne McMahon, owners of the farm where Funny Cide was foaled Robin Smullen, assistant trainer, with Ki Longfellow, a fan Barclay Tagg at Saratoga, September 1, 2006Funny Cide was part of one of Distorted Humor's first American crops when his stud fee was $10,000. (Distorted Humor's fee for 2008 was $300,000 for a live foal.) Funny Cide was originally purchased in August 2001 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga preferred yearling auction in Saratoga Springs for $22,000 by Tony Everard. With the average price of a yearling running about $43,000, Everard saw the colt as a bargain - a horse he could train at his New Episode Training Center in Ocala, Florida, for a fast financial turnaround. As Everard said, "He was a little bit on the immature side but he had a good frame and a big, deep girth. He was also a ridgling (one testicle had not descended), and they usually sell cheaper." "Best," said Everard, "to do this early. The undescended testicle hurts them, and they don't learn as they should." Barclay Tagg purchased the gelding for $75,000 in a private transaction in March, 2002 for Sackatoga Stable. Once a steeplechase jockey, Tagg (who grew up in Abington, Pennsylvania and won his first race in 1972 at Liberty Bell Park) was a journeyman who had been on the racing scene for over 30 years. The victory by Funny Cide made Tagg the first trainer to win the Derby in his first attempt since Cam Gambolati saddled Sp