Spend a Buck Handicap

Spend A Buck Handicap
Discontinued Grade 3 stakes race
LocationCalder Race Course
Miami Gardens, Florida, United States
Inaugurated1991
Race typeThoroughbredFlat racing
Race information
Distance1+116 miles (8.5 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-years-old & up
WeightAssigned
Purse$100,000

The Spend A Buck Handicap was an American Grade III Thoroughbred horse race run between 1991 and 2012 at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, Florida. Open to horses age three and older, it was contested on dirt over a distance of 1+116 miles (8.5 furlongs).

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.[1] [2] Since inception the race has been contested at various distances and under different conditions:

  • 1+116 miles : 1991, 1997–present
  • 1 mile, 70 yards : 1992, run as the Spend A Buck Overnight Handicap for three-year-olds
  • 1+18 miles: 1994–1996
  1. ^ "Spend a Buck Handicap". Equibase Co LLC. 2012-10-13. Retrieved 2021-07-31.
  2. ^ calderracecourse.com Hall of Fame Archived May 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine