Hilarious Video Clips and More

Enjoy this assortment of hilarious video clips and more at the Funny Cide.

You'll find this funny if you are the type that delights in others misfortunes

I was bored ok?

Jockey misjudges distance

We've all shot a basketball into the opposing teams basket or caught a pass and run toward the wrong end zone, right?

At least these are not as bad as the time that I tried to steal second base while the bases were loaded. It's a good thing the batter behind me got a base hit.

A similarly hilarious video, although not for the poor jockey I am sure. Even Bill Shoemaker made the emabarrasing mistake of standing up too soon before the wire in the 1957 Kentucky Derby, mistaking a furlong post for the finish line. Iron Liege charged past his mount Gallant Man for the win. So it happens to the best.

In 1990, jockey Sylvester Carmouche devised perhaps one of the boldest and most imaginative stratagems ever for winning a race. He made use of a thick fog that had set in to his advantage to win a race aboard a 23-1 long shot named Landing Officer at Delta Downs by hiding in the fog soon after they came out of the starting gate, and waiting for the field to make a full circuit around the track before rejoining them just before the field approached.

The problem was that he moved too soon. The victory was suspicious in that the long shot won by over 24 lengths and in a time just a second off the track record. He never was known for his sense of timing.

The other jockeys testified that they did not remember seeing Carmouche's mount pass them at any point.

He received a 10 year ban on racing. The vote to suspend Carmouche was 7-1. He served only 8 years - apparently he found a way to cheat his way out the remaining two. I want to know what the guy who voted neigh was thinking?

Factoid: Funny Cide was the 12-1 winner of the 2003 Kentucky Derby, upsetting heavily favored Empire Maker, who had previously defeated him in the Wood Memorial.