Pleasantly Perfect retired
PLEASANTLY PERFECT (Pleasant Colony), who was scheduled to
make his final career start in the Japan Cup Dirt (Jpn-G1) on
November 28, came out of his third-place finish in Saturday’s
Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) with an undetermined injury to his
left hind ankle and has been retired from racing, trainer Richard
Mandella told Daily Racing Form.
The six-year-old will enter stud next year at Lane’s End Farm
near Versailles, Kentucky, for a fee of $40,000.
Pleasantly Perfect will head to the breeding shed as the
fourth-leading money earner after amassing $7,789,880. The bay
won nine of 18 starts, including last year’s Breeders’ Cup
Classic and this year’s Dubai World Cup (UAE-G1) and Pacific
Classic (G1). Pleasantly Perfect captured back-to-back runnings
of the Goodwood Breeders’ Cup H. (G2) and began the 2004 season
with a four-length victory in the San Antonio H. (G2).
Pleasantly Perfect is out of French Group 1 winner Regal State
(Affirmed) and is a half-brother to French Group 3 winner
Hurricane State (Miswaki). Bred by Clovelly Farms, Pleasantly
Perfect sold for $725,000 to Gerald Ford’s Diamond A Racing Corp.
at the 1999 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.