Bay Horse
Foaled: May 8, 19879
Location: Kentucky
Sire: Pleasant Colony
Dam: Meteor Stage
Breeder: Thomas Mellon Evans
Owner: Buckland Farm
Trainer: Christopher Speckert
Career Length: 4 years (1989 - 1992)
Career Earnings: $ 2,721,169
Career Results: 9(6) wins in 32 starts

Win Highlights
  • ​1992 Jockey Gold Cup, G1
  • 1992 Suburban Handicap, G1
  • 1992 Malibu Stakes, G2 
  • 1992 Commonwealth Breeders’ Cup Stakes, G3
  • 1992 Churchill Downs Handicap, G3
Pleasant Tap

1992 Eclipse Award Champion Handicap Horse 

Elected to the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame on March 14, 1993
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