From 1982 at age 4, until 1998 at age 20, Pleasant Colony stood at
Thomas Mellon Evans's Buckland Farm annex outside Lexington, Kentucky on Paris Pike near the Fayette County and Bourbon County line. He became a very significant sire, producing seventy-three stakes race winners including more than a dozen Grade I winners and the following champions: • Pleasant Stage – the 1991
Champion Two-Year-Old Filly and winner of the
Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies •
Pleasant Tap – the 1992
Champion Older Male •
St Jovite – winner of the 1992
Irish Derby and
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes •
Pleasantly Perfect – winner of the 2003
Breeders' Cup Classic and 2004
Dubai World Cup, and sire of the champion sprinter
Whitmore •
Colonial Colony – winner of the 2004
Stephen Foster Handicap Pleasant Colony's daughters have produced a number of Grade 1 stakes race winners. He is the damsire of
Forestry, sire of
The Green Monkey sold at the February 2006
Fasig-Tipton Florida auction for a world record price of $16-million.
The Green Monkey had almost no success at the racetrack and is now standing at stud. Following his owner's death in 1997, Pleasant Colony was sent to
Blue Ridge Farm in
Upperville, Virginia, where he died in 2002 at age 24. After his death, Pleasant Colony returned to Buckland Farm to be buried in the primary field of Barn 4, the Broodmare Barn, in the field adjacent to the farm's main house site. Pleasant Colony's veterinarian Dr. Janice Runkle, 27 at the time, was the first female vet ever to care for a Derby entrant or winner. Later in the summer of 1981 her body was found in a bushy beach area on the shore of Lake Michigan north of Chicago, the ruling of suicide remains controversial decades later. ==Sire line tree==