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![]() Leaving the life of a pony behind, and coming here to Lexington Hall of Champions at the Horse Park.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts |
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![]() Barclay Tagg was a bit vague on what rigors of training and racing are leading to Funny Cide's discomfort (the reason he's not still the stable pony) but I'll take a swing at arthritis. I got the impression he was more interested at being around a track than on display in a stall. Whatever it is must be more than a little uncomfortable to cause the change.
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![]() Like any of us, some parts start to ache when we get older, guess Funny Cide is no different. I am usually not too fan boy-ish about horse racing, but I LOVE this horse.
When I heard Empire Maker had that hoof bruise or whatever it was, I went hand over fist with cash to the window at 12-1 on FC. Since it was already May, I took my winnings and stashed them until the next semester at school started a few months later, and needless to say, FC paid for a lot of cheap beer during Fall 2003 at college. Ahhhh those were the days lol...
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![]() I saw Pesticide a lot thru Sept and he looked the picture of health.. I actually thought it was pretty cool of Mr. Tagg to try and keep him as his pony.
A quick side note....The bus needed a 150k sevice, at which time they discovered the trany was screwed, sadly they had no choice but to put her down.. I cried. Run with Angels girl |
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![]() The back problems that troubled him during his racing career have persisted and it was no longer practical to have someone riding him, even as a stable pony.
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