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Article: BELMONT IS BIGGEST CHALLENGE\ FUNNY CIDE TRIES FOR TRIPLE CROWN.(Sports)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 3, 2003
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Byline: Andrew Beyer Washington Post
When Funny Cide attempts to win the Belmont Stakes and capture the Triple Crown, he must do more than defeat a formidable group of opponents. He must overcome history.
The Triple Crown series almost unfailingly thwarts horses who are not among the sport's all-time greats. In the past 55 years, only Citation, Secretariat, Affirmed and Seattle Slew have swept the 3-year-old classics. Even Funny Cide's admirers could not argue that the gelding is in their exalted class.
Yet horses do not fail in the Triple Crown simply because the racing gods deem that they are not sufficiently great. Often they miss because they are ill suited to ...