Domestic Spending (GB)

Domestic Spending opened his career with back-to-back victories in one-mile turf races, the first in February 2020 at Tampa Bay Downs and the second in June at Belmont Park. From there, the Kingman gelding was tested against stakes competition and finished third in the Grade 2 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes July 18 at Saratoga.

Domestic Spending earned the first stakes win of his career in his next race when he edged Gufo by a head to win the $500,000 Saratoga Derby Invitational Stakes Aug. 15 at Saratoga.

Given a 3 ½-month freshening, Domestic Spending was shipped to Del Mar for the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby. He took command in the closing strides from runner-up Smooth Like Strait and again held off the late rush of Gufo, the third-place finisher, to prevail and earn a Grade 1 win.

Domestic Spending made his 2021 debut in the $1 million, Grade 1 Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic Stakes. He angled out for running room in deep stretch, and drew even with heavily favored Colonel Liam in the closing strides to finish in a dead heat for first in a thrilling race. He continued his winning ways in the Grade 1 Resorts World Casino Manhattan Stakes at Belmont Park on June 5, catching his pace-setting stablemate Tribhuvan in the last few strides. 

In his final start at age 4 in 2021, Domestic Spending finished a rallying second as the 2-5 favorite in the Grade 1 Mr. D. Stakes at Arlington Park (formerly the Arlington Million Stakes). He missed the 2021 Breeders’ Cup with an inflamed foreleg and did not start through the first 10 months of 2022, although he was kept in training by Chad Brown. Brown made news in mid-October by stating that Domestic Spending could be a “surprise entrant” in the 2022 Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland, having been sent to the Kentucky track to work out.