Horse of the Day: Spend A Buck

[Soaring Softly]

Originally Posted by Revidere

Your welcome.

And Diaz wouldn't hold up the race for 20 minutes or move the race on the card (ABC had no issues with either since the Celtics/Laker game was scheduled earlier in the day) so Angel could coptor over from Belmont where he was committed to Track Barron in the Met Mile, and then wouldn't even offer up part of the bonus to him!

No kidding? I know that Angel tried very hard to get released from his commitment to Track Barron that day and was refused. He would have been there if he'd had a choice.

But I never heard that part about Dennis Diaz actually blocking any chance he had to get there to ride the horse, and if Diaz wouldn't even throw a piece of the bonus Angel's way after all he had done for him.......well, what was up with that?!

Spend A Buck was one of those brilliant champions that just get forgotten over the years. He was basically given up on at stud quite quickly and sent to Brazil, so he was out of sight out of mind. He sent us a gift from down there though. His name is Einstein.

Spend A Buck made a fan of me in that Jersey Derby. He was a good boy.