Last year’s Breeders Cup Classic winner, Pleasantly Perfect has been retired to stud. He will stand at Lane’s End, in Kentucky where his sire, Pleasant Colony, spent the last part of his successful stud career. No fee has been set yet. 

Trained by Richard Mandella, Pleasantly Perfect was lightly raced having made just 17 starts in his career. He won nine and placed three times. 

Winner of the Goodwood Breeders Cup Handicap in 2002, injury prevented him from making that year’s Breeders Cup Classic. A repeat win in the Goodwood set him up perfectly for last year’s Breeders Cup which saw him beat Medaglia D’Oro by over a length. 

In 2004 he made just five starts, winning three, finishing second once and third once. His four length romp in the San Antonio preceded a gusty stretch duel with Medaglia D’Oro in the World Cup. Again he prevailed over the Frankel trained horse, this time by three parts of a length. 

Second in his prep for the Pacific Classic, he duly won the Del Mar signature event over Perfect Drift and Total Impact. His last start saw him finish third in Ghostzapper’s Breeders Cup Classic. 

A son of leading sire, Pleasant Colony, his dam Regal State won the Prix Morny. A daughter of Affirmed she is a half sister to another Prix Morny winner, Seven Springs-the dam of Distant View.