On this unique list of my favorite Thoroughbred Race horses. I have to include a least one of my favorite Kentucky Derby Winners. That horse would be the winner of the Kentucky Derby in 1985. The winner that year was a terrific pure speed horse named "Spend A Buck". The yearly running of the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May. Remains one of the highest honers that can be achieved in the horse racing business! Winning the run for the roses can be compared. To a baseball player winning the World Series. A Football Player winning the Super Bowel. Or a soccer player winning the World Cup of Football! I was thrilled when our wonderful horse 'Truth of It All" completed in the 1993 edition of the Kentucky Derby. I realized through my experience. What an important and prestigious horse-race the Derby is. Also how incredible hard it is to obtain a racehorse good enough to compete in this difficult equine test. Let alone how hard it is to win it!
The distance of the Kentucky Derby is 1 1/4 miles. Run on the first Saturday in May each year. Usually it draws a full field of 20 racehorses. This makes it even more difficult for the best horse in the race to win. Because so much can go terrible wrong in a big field of 20. Also trying to set the pace and lead all the way in the Kentucky Derby I would say is very difficult or impossible feat to accomplish. However on May 4th 1985 the great Thoroughbred "Spend A Buck". Would make the impossible task of setting blistering fractions during the entire 1 1/4 miles in the Derby. Also leading for every stride of the 1985 Kentucky Derby, look easy! The handsome big bay colt with Champion jockey Angel Cordero Jr. riding him. Went to the lead running the first 1/4 mile in 23 seconds. leading by 3 lengths around the Clubhouse turn. In the run down the backstretch. Spend a Buck would blister the opening 1/2 mile in 45.4 and open a 6 length lead. The 1985 "Run For The Roses" was really over at this point in the race. For Spend A Buck was never going to slow down and give a come from behind closer a chance to beat him. Spend A Buck would sizzle the 3/4 mile in 1:09 3/5 and command a 6 length advantage. With jockey Angel Cordero Jr. just steering him. When this fluent pair had reached the head of the stretch and scorched the mile at Churchill Downs in 1:34 4/5. It was now time for Angel Cordero Jr. to take off the cruise control on Spend a Buck and ask him to keep up his frantic pace! Which the pair did coasting home to the finish wire at Churchill Downs. Winning the Kentucky Derby by 5 3/4 lengths in a fishing time of 2:01.1/5. It was truly one of the greatest races that we had all witnessed on this May 4th in 1985, in horse racing history!
| Spend A Buck | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Buckaroo |
| Grandsire | Buckpasser |
| Dam | Belle de Jour |
| Damsire | Speak John |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1982 |
| 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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 at Monmouth Park Spend A Buck Handicap at Calder Race Course |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-MRD9QutB8 1985 Kentucky Derby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quSGxqZrVRM 1985 Haskell Invitational
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