Spend a Buck
| Spend A Buck | |
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| Sire | Buckaroo |
| Grandsire | Buckpasser |
| Dam | Belle de Jour |
| Damsire | Speak John |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | May 15, 1982 |
| Died | November 24, 2002 (aged 20) |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Brown |
| Breeder | C. Rowe Harper, Irish Hill Farm |
| Owner | Hunter Farm |
| Trainer | Cam Gambolati |
| Record | 15: 10–3–2 |
| Earnings | $4,220,689 |
| Major wins | |
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Arlington-Washington Futurity Stakes (1984) Kentucky Derby (1985) Jersey Derby (1985) Monmouth Handicap (1985) |
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| Awards | |
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U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1985) United States Horse of the Year (1985) |
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| Honours | |
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Calder Race Course Hall of Fame (1995) Spend A Buck Stakes at Monmouth Park Spend A Buck Handicap at Calder Race Course |
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| Last updated on February 8, 2007 | |
Spend A Buck (May 15, 1982 in western Kentucky – November 24, 2002, in Brazil) was an American thoroughbred race horse.
Spend A Buck was sired by Buckaroo out of the dam Belle de Jour. Through his son Einstein (BRZ), he is now the primary source for the Buckpasser sire line in the United States. Spend a Buck is inbred 5x5 to Prince Rose and is line bred 5x8x8x6 to Man o' War, while his sire Buckaroo is inbred 4x5 to Blue Larkspur and La Troienne.
On May 4, 1985, Spend A Buck won the Kentucky Derby by 5-3/4 lengths over Stephan's Odyssey under jockey Angel Cordero Jr. His 2:00 1/5 time is the fourth fastest as of 2007. He paid $10.20, $5.40, and $3.40. It was his trainer Cam Gambolati's first attempt to win the Derby, a feat not matched again until 2003 when Barclay Tagg saddled Funny Cide for his win.
Earlier in the season, Spend A Buck had won two races at the newly reopened Garden State Park Racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey: the Cherry Hill Mile on April 6 and the Garden State Stakes on April 20. Before the season began, Garden State Park owner Robert Brennan had put up a $2-million bonus to the horse that won the two April preparatory races, the Kentucky Derby, and the May 27 Jersey Derby, Garden State's signature race.
Spend A Buck's owner, Dennis Diaz, opted to skip the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes and thus trade Spend A Buck's chance to win the Triple Crown for a shot at the bonus. Cordero, Spend A Buck's regular jockey, was committed to another race that day, so Hall of Fame jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. rode Spend A Buck at Garden State. Spend A Buck won the Jersey Derby by a neck over eventual Belmont winner Creme Fraiche, capturing a $2.6-million prize, the largest single purse in American racing history. That record stood for 19 years, until Smarty Jones won the 2004 Kentucky Derby and a bonus inspired by Brennan's.
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