Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.latimes.sports From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Pleasant Tap Retires to Stud in Kentucky Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 08:11:37 EST Message-ID: HEADLINE: Pleasant Tap Retires to Stud in Kentucky Publication Date: Friday November 13, 1992 BYLINE: Pleasant Tap, runner-up to A.P. Indy in the $3-million Breeders' Cup Classic two weeks ago, was retired Thursday and will stand at stud at Buckland Farm in Lexington, Ky. Stud fee for the 5-year-old was set at a relatively low $10,000. "It never hurts to raise the price of a stud, but it hurts to lower it," said Walter Vickers, vice president and general manager of Buckland Farm. "I felt that a $10,000 live foal was a really good deal. With any luck, if he goes on to become a successful sire, maybe we'll raise it." Pleasant Tap won stakes races at distances from seven furlongs to 1 1/4 miles. He earned $2,721,169 and won nine of 32 starts. His stakes victories came in the Malibu, Jockey Club Gold Cup, Suburban Handicap, Churchill Downs Handicap, Commonwealth Breeders' Cup and Sunny Slope Stakes. He also placed in the Kentucky Derby, the Metropolitan Handicap, Santa Anita Handicap, Nassau County Handicap, Lexington Stakes and San Bernardino Handicap. This article is copyright 1992 The Los Angeles Times Home Edition. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM