Philip H. Iselin Stakes), which stood for 37 years until broken in 2022. Honors and awards Spend a Buck was voted the 1985 Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year and Champion Three-Year-Old Colt. Several races were named for Spend a Buck, including the Spend a Buck Stakes at Monmouth Park and the Grade III Spend a Buck Handicap at Calder Race Course. Stud career Spend a Buck had a successful post-racing career standing stud, siring 27 stakes winners with earnings of over $16 million. He died on November 24, 2002, at Haras Bage do Sul in Brazil following an anaphylactic reaction to penicillin. Pedigree References External links Spend a Buck's Kentucky Derby Spend a Buck's pedigree and partial racing stats 1982 racehorse births 2002 racehorse deaths Racehorses trained in the United States Racehorses bred in Kentucky American Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Kentucky Derby winners Thoroughbred family 1-s