The Haskell Stakes is a Grade I American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run over a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles on the dirt held annually in July at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey . The event is a signature event at Monmouth Park during their summer racing season and a major race for three-year-olds in between the U.S. Triple Crown series and the Breeders' Cup . The event currently offers a purse of US$ 1,000,000.
13-743: The inaugural running of the race was on 3 August 1968, closing day of the Monmouth Park summer meeting, as the Monmouth Invitational Handicap with a field of eleven horses. It was won by 33-1 longshot Balustrade, ridden by Canadian jockey Eric Walsh, in a time of 1:50 flat with favorite Iron Ruler finishing fourth. In 1973, when the American Graded Stakes Committee was founded by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association,
26-522: A $ 2.6-million prize, the then largest single purse in American racing history. That record stood for 19 years, until Smarty Jones won the 2004 Kentucky Derby. Because Spend a Buck skipped the last two legs of the Triple Crown, the Triple Crown races put up a bonus of their own to encourage participation in the series. Spend a Buck set a track record of 146.80 for a mile and an eighth in winning
39-688: A Buck (May 15, 1982 in Daviess County, Kentucky – November 24, 2002, in Brazil ) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1985 Kentucky Derby . Spend a Buck was sired by Buckaroo out of the dam Belle de Jour. Through his son Einstein (BRZ), he is now the primary source for the Buckpasser sire line in the United States. Spend a Buck is inbred 5x5 to Prince Rose and is line bred 5x8x8x6 to Man o' War, while his sire Buckaroo
52-690: A Buck's owner, Dennis Diaz, opted to skip the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes and thus trade Spend a Buck's chance to win the Triple Crown for a shot at the bonus . Cordero, Spend a Buck's regular jockey, was committed to another race that day, so Hall of Fame jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. rode Spend a Buck at Garden State. Spend a Buck won the Jersey Derby by a neck over eventual Belmont winner Creme Fraiche , capturing
65-555: 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 . Legend – ₩ = Triple Crown winners, ♥ = Filly Garden State Park Racetrack Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
78-556: Is inbred 4x5 to Blue Larkspur and La Troienne. On May 4, 1985, Spend a Buck won the Kentucky Derby by 5-3/4 lengths over Stephan's Odyssey under jockey Angel Cordero Jr. His 2:00 1/5 time is the fourth fastest as of 2023. He paid $ 10.20, $ 5.40, and $ 3.40. It was his trainer Cam Gambolati 's first attempt to win the Derby, a feat not matched again until 2003 when Barclay Tagg saddled Funny Cide for his win. Earlier in
91-457: The Amory L. Haskell Handicap with this event, giving it the name Haskell Invitational Handicap . Amory L. Haskell (1893–1966) was the former president and chair of Monmouth Park. In 1997, the purse for the race was increased to $ 1,000,000 and has remained at that level with two exceptions. In 2006, the race was changed from a handicap to allowance weight conditions, and the name was modified to
104-564: The Haskell Invitational Stakes . In 2002, the purse was increased to $ 1,500,000 due to the presence of War Emblem , winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. In 2015, the purse was increased to $ 1,750,000 as it featured American Pharoah in his first race since winning the Triple Crown . The 2015 running attracted a record New Jersey crowd of 60,983. In 2020, the race ceased to be an Invitational, and
117-681: The 1985 Monmouth Handicap (now known as the Philip H. Iselin Stakes), which stood for 37 years until broken in 2022. 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 . Spend a Buck had
130-484: The Monmouth Invitational Handicap immediately was given the highest classification of Grade I. In the 1976, Majestic Light set a track record of 1:47 flat, winning by six lengths. The track record was broken by Spend A Buck in 1985. In 1987, Belmont Stakes winner Bet Twice won and equaled the stakes mark. In 1981, the board of directors of Monmouth Park Racetrack switched the name of
143-742: The name was changed to simply the Haskell Stakes . The race has attracted many sponsors including Buick (1996−1998), Izod (2010), William Hill (2013−2015), betfair.com (2016−2018), and TVG.com (2019–2023). In 2024, NYRA Bets (the betting platform owned by the New York Racing Association ) became the title sponsor. Eleven winners of the Haskell have won championship honors at the Eclipse Awards as best three-year-old colt or filly. Five have also been named horse of
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#1732783457833156-703: The season, Spend a Buck had won two races at the newly reopened Garden State Park Racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey : the Cherry Hill Mile Stakes on April 6 and the Garden State Stakes on April 20. Before the season began, Garden State Park owner Robert Brennan had put up a $ 2-million bonus to the horse that won the two April preparatory races, the Kentucky Derby, and the May 27 Jersey Derby , Garden State's signature race. Spend
169-570: The year in the year they won the Haskell. They are: Stakes record Largest winning margin Most wins by a jockey : Most wins by a trainer : Most wins by an owner: Notes: ƒ Filly or Mare † In the 2021 running Hot Rod Charlie was first past the winning post but was disqualified and placed seventh (last) for interfering in the stretch run clipping Midnight Bourbon who dislodged his rider Paco Lopez . Spend A Buck U.S. Triple Crown series: Kentucky Derby (1985) Spend
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