In his last race he finished third behind Ghostzapper and Roses in May in the 2004 Breeders' Cup Classic on October 30.
Stud record
Pleasantly Perfect entered stud in 2005 at Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky. His first offspring to race was Rapid Redux, who won a record 22 straight races and was the winner of the Eclipse Special Award for 2011. Pleasantly Perfect was exported to Turkey, where he died on June 3, 2020, at the age of 22.[1] His most successful son, Whitmore, won the Breeders' Cup Sprint a few months later in November 2020.[2]