The Spend A Buck Handicap is an American Grade III

Graded stakes race

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  Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

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 held annually since 1991 in mid October at Calder Race Course

Calder Race Course

Calder Casino & Race Course is a casino and horse racetrack in Miami Gardens, Florida in the United States.-History:In the mid-1960s, real estate developer Stephen A. Calder envisioned summertime racing in Florida; in 1965, on the advice of Mr. Calder, the Florida Legislature approved a bill...

 in Miami Gardens, Florida

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. Open to horses age three and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of 1¹/16 miles (8.5 furlongs).

The race was named in honor of Spend A Buck

Spend A Buck

Spend A Buck was an American thoroughbred race horse.-Background:Spend A Buck was sired by Buckaroo out of the dam Belle de Jour...

, winner of the 1985 Kentucky Derby

Kentucky Derby

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 and a Calder Race Course Hall of Fame inductee. Since inception the race has been contested at various distances and under different conditions:

• 1¹/16 miles : 1991, 1997–present
• 1 mile, 70 yards : 1992, run as the Spend A Buck Overnight Handicap for three-year-olds
• 1⅛ miles: 1994-1996

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 1¹/16 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

Jockey

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:

• 3 - Eibar Coa
  Eibar Coa
  Eibar Coa Monteverde is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. A five-time judo champion in his teens, he attended jockey school from 1989 to 1991 then began his professional riding career in 1992...
  
   (1999, 2001, 2004)

Most wins by a trainer

Horse trainer

In horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter...

:

• 2 - Martin D. Wolfson
  Martin D. Wolfson
  Martin "Marty" D. Wolfson is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He embarked on a professional training career in the early 1970s. He is the son of Louis Wolfson, owner of Florida's Harbor View Farm who won the U.S...
  
   (1998, 2008)
• 2 - Edward Plesa, Jr. (1999, 2001)
• 2 - Jeffrey Thornbury (2010, 2011)

Most wins by an owner:

• 2 - Bea Oxenberg (1999, 2001)

Winners

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2011	Mad Flatter	6	Jon Court Jon Court Jon Kenton Court is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.Having grown up in Florida, Jon Court began riding in Colorado at the now closed Centennial Park in 1980....	Jeffrey Thornbury	Bonnie Heath Farm	1:46.07
2010	Mad Flatter	5	Jon Court Jon Court Jon Kenton Court is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.Having grown up in Florida, Jon Court began riding in Colorado at the now closed Centennial Park in 1980....	Jeffrey Thornbury	Bonnie Heath Farm/Holiday Stable/Bright Brook Farm/Hinkle Farms	1:46.37
2009	Mambo Meister	4	Manoel Cruz	Philip Gleaves	Quantum Racing Team	1:46.85
2008	It's a Bird	5	Jermaine Bridgmohan	Martin D. Wolfson Martin D. Wolfson Martin "Marty" D. Wolfson is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He embarked on a professional training career in the early 1970s. He is the son of Louis Wolfson, owner of Florida's Harbor View Farm who won the U.S...	Edmund A. Gann Edmund A. Gann Edmund A. Gann is an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner.-Early life and career:...	1:46.40
2007	Yes He's the Man	4	Julio Garcia	J. David Braddy	J. D. Braddy & J. Sainer	1:45.14
2006	Nkosi Reigns	5	Jeffrey Sanchez Jeffrey Sanchez Jeffrey Sánchez has been a Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives since 2003. Sánchez represents the Fifteenth Suffolk/Norfolk district, which is made up of the Boston communities Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain and Roslindale as well as the Precinct 5 of the Town of...	Ron Spatz	Carson Springs Farm	1:45.40
2005	Supervisor	5	Aurelio Toribio, Jr.	Emanuel Tortora	Rodney G. Lundock	1:46.94
2004	Built Up	6	Eibar Coa Eibar Coa Eibar Coa Monteverde is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. A five-time judo champion in his teens, he attended jockey school from 1989 to 1991 then began his professional riding career in 1992...	Enrique Alonso	Raymond Susi	1:45.86
2003	Tour Of The Cat	5	Abad Cabassa, Jr.	Myra Mora	Double G Stables LLC	1:46.30
2002	Pay The Preacher	4	Cornelio Velasquez Cornelio Velásquez Cornelio H. Velásquez is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He was introduced to horse racing at age fifteen by trainer Carlos Salazar Guardia in his native Panama and enrolled in the national jockey school...	Robert A. Hale	Rosamond Davis	1:44.91
2001	Best of the Rest	6	Eibar Coa Eibar Coa Eibar Coa Monteverde is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. A five-time judo champion in his teens, he attended jockey school from 1989 to 1991 then began his professional riding career in 1992...	Edward Plesa, Jr.	Bea Oxenberg	1:42.59
2000	Groomstick Stock’s	4	Rosemary Homeister, Jr. Rosemary Homeister, Jr. Rosemary Homeister, Jr. is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. Both of Homeister's parents were jockeys and as a result she grew up riding horses. Her mother is now a horse trainer at the Calder Race Course where Rosemary won her first race as an apprentice jockey...	Paul Brettler	Julian DeMora	1:44.82
1999	Best of the Rest	4	Eibar Coa Eibar Coa Eibar Coa Monteverde is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. A five-time judo champion in his teens, he attended jockey school from 1989 to 1991 then began his professional riding career in 1992...	Edward Plesa, Jr.	Bea Oxenberg	1:44.67
1998	Unruled	5	Gary Boulanger Gary Boulanger Gary Dale Boulanger is a former jockey who competed in Canada and the United States and who is currently a trainer in Florida. He began his career in 1987 at Tampa Bay Downs then went to the Pacific Northwest where he was the leading jockey for three straight years from 1989 through 1991 at...	Martin D. Wolfson Martin D. Wolfson Martin "Marty" D. Wolfson is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He embarked on a professional training career in the early 1970s. He is the son of Louis Wolfson, owner of Florida's Harbor View Farm who won the U.S...	W. Heiligbrodt & J. Hammer	1:45.60
1997	Derivative	6	Jose C. Ferrer Jose C. Ferrer Jose C. Ferrer is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He began riding in the United States in 1983 at Calder Race Course in Florida then at Monmouth Park and the Meadowlands Racetrack in New Jersey. On November 24, 1983 Ferrer became the first jockey to win five races on a single card...	James E. Bracken	Tartan Stable	1:45.60
1996	King Rex	4	Ricardo Lopez	Laura Posada	Peter A. Tamburo	1:52.80
1995	Pride of Burkaan	5	Rene Douglas Rene R. Douglas Rene R. Douglas Panama is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. Born into a Thoroughbred racing family, after attending jockey school Douglas rode in his native Panama for a year and a half before moving to the United States in 1983. His first major win came in 1989 in the prestigious...	Ralph Ziadie	R. Johnson & G. Murchison	1:51.80
1994	Daniel's Boy	6	Pedro Rodriguez	Jose Abdale	Alvin Deloach	1:52.60
1993	no race
1992	Poulain D'Or	3	Pedro Rodriguez	Daniel Hurtak	Frances W. Ballou	1:42.20
1991	Higgler	3	Danny Nied	Frank Gomez	Leverett S. Miller	1:48.20