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Going some place in a feverish hurry, though exactly where is the next question, a bay bullet called Spend A Buck streaked away with the Kentucky Derby last week, posting the third-sprightliest mile and a quarter (2:00 1/5) in 111 springs at Churchill Downs. Stephan's Odyssey finished second, more than five lengths behind, and the 6-to-5 favorite, Chief's Crown, was third. Far up the track, or at least it seemed so, came that old plug tradition, which may be losing ground even...
...dirt track until the word blew about the backstretch shed rows like a whisper on a breeze: "It's Highway I-65 out there." That cinched what had been the popular wisdom all week. This race would turn on the two speedballs in the field of 13: Spend A Buck and Eternal Prince. Should both dart out ahead, might they form a suicide pact? "Sure, they could kill each other," Jockey Angel Cordero had agreed with a poisonous smile, "but I promise you one thing, Eternal Prince won't ever get in front of my horse." His horse was Spend...
Beyond the wonder of his arthro scopic knee surgery last November, the fact that Spend A Buck began his twelve-race career (eight wins) at Florida's Calder Race Course was a delight of its own. Henceforth, at least for a while, "a Calder horse" will no longer serve as racing shorthand for a second-rater. Both the owner and trainer are recent arrivals in the sport, both of Tampa, Fla. Dennis Diaz, who retired from the real estate and insurance businesses four years ago at 38, discovered "there's only so much fishing a man can do." With...
...week's Preakness, with further dreams at Belmont. But a $2 million bonus, on top of a $600,000 Jersey Derby purse, awaits the horse that can sweep those three Garden State races and the Kentucky Derby. The Jersey Derby comes nine days after the Preakness, and Spend A Buck cannot keep both appointments. "We're in the business to win purses," Diaz said, pointing out ominously that there are other routes to high stud fees than the Triple Crown. The rub is there are none sweeter...
...wallet. I'm one of "Michael's Pets." We're stuffed toys based on actual animals that live at Michael Jackson's house. For $22 you can buy me or half a dozen other furry knockoffs from the Jackson menagerie. Michael went along with this deal because one buck for every animal sold goes to a charity he picks. And six of you lucky buyers will get to visit the master and his real pets in May 1986--but only if you are between three and 15 years old. As we animals know, grownups make Michael very nervous...