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

In 2003, a three-year-old with an irrepressible personality and the unlikely name of Funny Cide became "the people's horse," the unheralded New York-bred gelding that - in a time of war and economic jitters - inspired a nation by knocking off the champions and their multimillionaire owners and sweeping to the brink of the Triple Crown. It's a story for the underdog in all of us - a new American classic.