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| | SI.com - Horse Racing - Funny Cide, a gelding, still feels the love - Wednesday June 04, 2003 05:18 PM |
 | | After a horse is gelded, he tends to become more focused on training, less interested in fillies, and his racing career lasts longer because he's easier to handle. |
 | | Geldings, though, were banned from the Belmont from 1919-1956, mainly because owners did not want to see their colts' value as a stallion diminished with a loss to a horse who was unable to reproduce. |
 | | The decision to geld Funny Cide was made easier because his future as a stallion was questionable due to pedigree: his sire Distorted Humor is unproven and his mare, Belle's Good Cide, won two of 26 starts and died in March of colic. |
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