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Spend A Buck Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1991

Purse
  
100,000 USD

Surface
  
Dirt

Location
  
Calder Race Course Miami Gardens, Florida, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.calderracecourse.com

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

2010 spend a buck handicap


The Spend A Buck Handicap is an American Grade III Thoroughbred horse race held annually since 1991 in mid October at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, Florida. Open to horses age three and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of  1 1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs).

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The race was named in honor of Spend A Buck, winner of the 1985 Kentucky Derby and a Calder Race Course Hall of Fame inductee. Since inception the race has been contested at various distances and under different conditions:

  •  1 1⁄16 miles : 1991, 1997–present
  • 1 mile, 70 yards : 1992, run as the Spend A Buck Overnight Handicap for three-year-olds
  •  1 1⁄8 miles: 1994-1996

    • 2010 spend a buck handicap


    Records

    Speed record: (at current distance of  1 1⁄16 miles)

  • 1:42.59 - Best of the Rest (2001)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Best of the Rest (1999, 2001)
  • 2 - Mad Flatter (2010, 2011)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 - Eibar Coa (1999, 2001, 2004)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 2 - Martin D. Wolfson (1998, 2008)
  • 2 - Edward Plesa, Jr. (1999, 2001)
  • 2 - Jeffrey Thornbury (2010, 2011)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Bea Oxenberg (1999, 2001)

    • References

    Spend A Buck Handicap Wikipedia
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