Beautiful Pleasure

She was and out of the mare Beautiful Bid, a daughter of Baldski who was a son of the 1970 English Triple Crown winner, Nijinsky.

[1] She was a full sister to the speedy Mecke, a multiple Grade 1 stakes winner in track/course record times on both dirt and turf racing surfaces.

[2] Beautiful Pleasure was sold to John Oxley for $480,000 by Farnsworth Farms through the April 1997 Keeneland sale for two-year-olds in training.

Trained by John Ward Jr., she was a winner of six Grade I races at age two, four, and five, three of which came during her 1999, Championship season.

[3] When her racing career was over, Beautiful Pleasure served as a broodmare for owner John Oxley's Fawn Leap Farm near Midway, Kentucky.