Good Cheer

Good Cheer enjoyed a perfect 4-for-4 season as a 2-year-old filly in 2024 including three wins at Churchill Downs after winning her maiden race at first asking in a one-mile race at Horseshoe Indianapolis on Aug. 5. She beat allowance horses by 17 lengths in the slop at Churchill on Sept. 28 and then added a stakes win by 4 3/4 lengths in the $200,000 Rags to Riches Stakes going 1 1/16 miles at Churchill on Oct. 27. 

Good Cheer became a graded stakes winner for the first time with her win in the Grade 2 $400,000 Golden Rod Stakes going 1 1/6 miles at Churchill Downs on Nov. 30. Sent off as the 3-5 favorite on the tote board in a field of seven fillies in the Golden Rod, Good Cheer stalked the pace in the back half of the field and then effortlessly took control of the race into the stretch and drew off to a 2 1/2-length victory.

Good Cheer made her 3-year-old seasonal debut on Feb. 15, 2025, in the Grade 2 $300,000 Fasig-Tipton Rachel Alexandra Stakes going 1 1/16 miles at Fair Grounds and earned her fifth straight lengthy victory to remain unbeaten in five lifetime outings to date. Sent off as the prohibitive favorite in a field that scratched down to four horses, Good Cheer stalked the pace, raced in traffic at the top of the stretch, got through between horses, and powered away from the others in the stretch for a 6 1/4-length win.

Good Cheer is trained by Brad Cox for Godolphin. She was bred in Kentucky by the sire Medaglia d'Oro out of the mare Wedding Toast by Street Sense.