{"product_id":"funny-cide-how-a-horse-a-trainer-a-jockey-and-a-bunch-of-high-school-buddies-took-on-theshieks-and-bluebloods-and-won-9780425200308","title":"Funny Cide: How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on theShieks and Bluebloods...and Won","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): The Funny Cide Team\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Animal Sports - Horse Racing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey had no business being there. They were up against million-dollar horses owned by patricians, oilmen, Arab sheiks, and Hollywood producers. They were ten regular guys, and all they wanted was to win a race. Instead, they won the hearts of America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2003, a three-year-old with the unlikely name of Funny Cide became \"the people's horse,\" the unheralded New York-bred gelding who-in a time of war and economic jitters-inspired a nation by knocking off the champions and their millionaire owners and sweeping to the brink of the Triple Crown. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTrained by a journeyman who'd spent over 30 years looking for \"the one,\" ridden by a jockey fighting to come back after years of injuries and hard knocks, and owned by a band of high school buddies from Sackets Harbor, N.Y., Funny Cide became a hero and media sensation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, Sally Jenkins, award-winning co-author of Lance Armstrong's #1 bestseller \u003ci\u003eIt's Not About the Bike\u003c\/i\u003e, tells the inside story of the Funny Cide team's ups and downs against overwhelming odds, illness, and even scandal, to capture the imagination of millions. It's a new American classic for the underdog in all of us.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408887111831,"sku":"9780425200308","price":2166.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780425200308.webp?v=1767310735","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/funny-cide-how-a-horse-a-trainer-a-jockey-and-a-bunch-of-high-school-buddies-took-on-theshieks-and-bluebloods-and-won-9780425200308","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}