Dennis Diaz

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  www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/thoroughbred-racing/ecl - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/29/2009    Last Visited: 6/29/2009  

  Owner: Dennis Diaz
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  Owner: Dennis Diaz

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  www.flyingfilly.com/good-bye_2007.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2007    Last Visited: 12/14/2007  

  Dennis Diaz - owner of Spend a Buck passed away 7/2 of cancer.

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  BREEDING AND RACING DECEMBER 2002 ARCHIVE PAGE - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 7/9/2003  

  Spend A Buck won the first three races in the series; then instead of running him in the Preakness Stakes, owner Dennis Diaz opted to concentrate on the Jersey Derby.Spend A Buck didn't disappoint - winning the Jersey Derby & collecting the rich bonus, plus US$600,000 of the original US$1 million purse.Diaz also bypassed the Belmont Stakes with the colt.

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  DelcoTimes - Jack McCaffery: Philly’s racing... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/27/2006    Last Visited: 5/27/2006  

  Shortly after, Spend a Buck's owner Dennis Diaz chose to skip the Preakness and chose instead to run his champion in the Jersey Derby, what with the lure a $2 million bonus for any horse to have won two Garden State preps, a Triple Crown race and the Jersey Derby.Naturally, he won -- a Philly-area-raised champion winning at home, big-timing the Triple Crown to the delight of a packed house of area sports fans.
  
  The current relevance?Not much.

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  ESPN.com - Horse Racing - Derby winner Spend a Buck... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/5/2002    Last Visited: 12/5/2002  

  Despite furious campaigning by racing officials from the tracks that hosted the Triple Crown races, owner Dennis Diaz and trainer Cam Gambolati chose to forego the Preakness and the Belmont in favor of the Jersey Derby, a race Spend a Buck ultimately won.

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  Ellis Park | About | History | - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/24/2000    Last Visited: 5/15/2005  

  Aug. 21 - Owner Dennis Diaz places the Kentucky Derby trophy won by his Spend a Buck in 1985 on display while visiting his longtime friends, track owners Roger and Lila Kumar.

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  FamilyCorner.com Magazine - Postcards from Anywhere - 8 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/6/2006    Last Visited: 5/6/2006  

  Spend A Buck 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.

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  Guest Shots - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/3/2002    Last Visited: 5/30/2003  

  Gambolatti and especially owner Dennis Diaz - certainly were.
  
  And they provided this writer with reams of copy.I must have written more than 100 pieces on Spend A Buck for the New York Post, and I became so linked with the horse that I was one of only two turf writers invited to a Spend A Buck black-tie retirement party thrown by Diaz at a luxury downtown Tampa hotel late in '85.
  
  A few weeks later, while leaving Aqueduct, I was tipped that Spend A Buck had been
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  Dennis Diaz.
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  Diaz: "Thanks, John.
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  I hung up from Diaz, and called the Post.

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  Horse Racing and Breeding Information from The... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/4/2002    Last Visited: 12/5/2002  

  Spend a Buck won the first three races in the series, but instead of running him in the Preakness Stakes (gr. I), owner Dennis Diaz opted to withhold him from the race and concentrate on the Jersey Derby the end of May.
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  Diaz also bypassed the Belmont Stakes (gr. I) with the colt.
  
  Irate over Diaz' action and worried about the possibility of it happening again, officials at Churchill Downs, Pimlico, and Belmont Park conceived a Triple Crown bonus that largely remains intact to this day.
  
  Spend a Buck (Buckaroo -- Belle de Jour, by Speak John) raced twice more before an injury hastened his retirement.He finished second to Skip Trial (later the sire of Horse of the Year Skip Away) in the Haskell Invitational Handicap (gr. I), then beat older horses in the Monmouth Handicap (gr. I).While training for the Pennsylvania Derby (gr. II) in September, he injured his right ankle during a workout.He was retired with 10 wins from 15 starts and earnings of $4,220,689 in two years of racing.

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  Horse Racing and Breeding Information from The... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/12/2002    Last Visited: 1/12/2002  

  Hunter Farm, which spans more than 320 acres near Ocala and features a three-quarter-mile dirt track and one-mile turf course, has been divided up into five parcels by owner Dennis Diaz, who raced champion and 1985 Kentucky Derby winner Spend a Buck.
  
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  "This is the only way we could give rights to the owner in perpetuity," Diaz said."I'm really pleased at what the Stewart's have done.
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  "I've been trying to retire from the farm business," said Diaz, who moved to Tampa in 1990."It's a considerable commute from Ocala to Tampa.I'm looking to get back into racing and buy a few yearlings and 2-year-olds.
  
  Copyright © 2002 The Blood-Horse, Inc.All Rights Reserved.

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