- Spend A Buck
Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Spend A Buck
caption =
sire = Buckaroo
grandsire =Buckpasser
dam = Belle de Jour
damsire = Speak John
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1982
country = USA flagicon|USA
colour = Brown
breeder = Irish Hill Farm
owner = Hunter Farm
trainer =Cam Gambolati
record = 15: 10-3-2
earnings = $4,220,689
race =Arlington-Washington Futurity Stakes (1984)Kentucky Derby (1985)Jersey Derby (1985)
Monmouth Handicap (1985)
awards=U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1985)
United States Horse of the Year (1985)
honours = Calder Race Course Hall of Fame (1995)Spend A Buck Stakes atMonmouth Park Spend A Buck Handicap atCalder Race Course
updated= February 8, 2007Spend A Buck (born
1982 in westernKentucky , diedNovember 24 ,2002 inBrazil ) was an Americanthoroughbred racehorse .Spend A Buck was sired by Buckaroo [http://www.chef-de-race.com/dosage/chefs-de-race/buckaroo-pleasant_colony.htm] out of the dam Belle de Jour. He bears an impressive pedigree, including Man o' War,
War Admiral , andCount Fleet .On
May 4 ,1985 , Spend A Buck won theKentucky Derby by 5-3/4 lengths over Stephan's Odyssey under Hall of Famejockey Angel Cordero Jr. His 2:00 1/5 time is the fourth-fastest to date, as of2007 . He paid $10.20, $5.40, and $3.40. It was his trainer's,Cam Gambolati , first attempt to win the Derby, a feat not matched again until 2003 whenBarclay Tagg saddledFunny Cide for his win.Earlier in the season, Spend A Buck had won two races at the newly reopened
Garden State Park in Cherry Hill, NJ: the Cherry Hill Mile on April 6, and the Garden State Stakes on April 20. Before the season had began, Garden State Park ownerRobert Brennan had put up a $2 million bonus to the horse that could win the two April prep races, the Kentucky Derby, and theMay 27 Jersey Derby , Garden State's signature race.Spend A Buck owner Dennis Diaz opted to skip the
Preakness Stakes and theBelmont 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. was to ride 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, untilSmarty Jones won the2004 Kentucky Derby and a bonus inspired by Brennan's.Due to Spend A Buck skipping the last two legs of the Triple Crown, the Triple Crown races immediately put up a bonus of their own, to prevent that from ever happening again.
Spend A Buck was voted the 1985
Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year and Champion 3-Year-Old Colt after that impressive season.There are several races named for Spend A Buck, including the Spend A Buck Stakes at Monmouth Park and the Grade III
Spend A Buck Handicap atCalder Race Course .Spend A Buck had a very successful post-racing career standing stud, [http://www.pedigreepost.com/archives/SpendaBuckJoseOliveira.html] siring 27 stakes winners with earnings of over $16 million. He died on November 24, 2002 at Haras Bage do Sul in Brazil, following an anaphylactic reaction to
penicillin . [http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/breeding-news/2002/December/04/Kentucky-Derby-winner-Spend-a-Buck-dies-in-Brazil.aspx]Pedigree
name = Spend A Buck
f = Buckaroo
m = Belle de Jour
ff =Buckpasser
fm = Stepping High
mf = Speak John
mm = Battle Dress
fff =Tom Fool
ffm = Busanda
fmf = No Robbery
fmm = Bebop II
mff = Prince John
mfm = Nuit de Folies
mmf = Jaipur
mmm = Armorial
ffff =Menow
fffm = Gaga
ffmf =War Admiral
ffmm = Businesslike
fmff = Swaps
fmfm = Bimlette
fmmf = Prince Bio
fmmm = Cappellina
mfff =Princequillo
mffm = Not Afraid
mfmf = Tornado
mfmm = Folle Nuit
mmff =Nasrullah
mmfm = Rare Perfume
mmmf = Battlefield
mmmm = TellarisReferences
* [http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2006/derby_history/derby_charts/years/1985.html Spend A Buck's Kentucky Derby]
* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/spend+a+buck Spend A Buck's pedigree and partial racing stats]
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