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    • From first crop of Life Is Good

    • Similar cross as BC Champ Ted Noffey

    • Heading to KY Derby Winning Trainer Cherie DeVaux

This bay colt by Life Is Good brings together the brilliant speed of one of the most talented racehorses of his generation with a deep female family filled with Grade 1 quality.

Life Is Good won nine races and earned more than $4.5 million, with his biggest victories including the Pegasus World Cup (G1), Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), Whitney Stakes (G1), and Woodward Stakes (G1). His first crop has made an immediate impact in 2026, already producing a Hopeful Stakes (G1) winner, along with Kentucky Juvenile Stakes winner Waggley. The catalog already lists Waggley among Life Is Good’s early winners.

This colt is bred on a similar cross to Grade 1 winners Gina Romantica and Ted Noffey, as well as multiple Grade 2 winner Maximus Mischief, an encouraging pattern combining the Into Mischief line with the Unbridled influence found through his dam.

There is serious quality on the bottom side as well. His second dam, Icon Project, earned more than $660,000 and won the Personal Ensign Stakes (G1) at Saratoga, while also producing Del Mar Handicap (G2) winner Fashion Business.

The family gets even stronger under third dam La Gueriere, herself a Grade 1 winner who produced multiple graded stakes horses. La Gueriere is also the granddam of Munnings, the multiple Grade 2-winning sprinter who has developed into one of the country’s most successful stallions.

He will be trained by Cherie DeVaux, whose program continues to operate at the highest level, headlined by Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Golden Tempo, Breeders’ Cup winner More Than Looks, and top sprinter Englishman, along with outstanding fillies including West Point’s Vahva and champion She Feels Pretty.

Price includes acquisition, training, veterinary, and insurance expenses until January 1, 2028.

Trainer: Cherie DeVaux

  • Became a household name when Golden Tempo won the 2026 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. Cherie is the first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby
  • Cherie went out on her own in 2018 after serving as a longtime assistant to Chad Brown
  • She is well known for her hands-on work with champion Lady Eli
  • Her stable is Kentucky-based, but she runs frequently in New York, New Orleans, and Florida
  • Conditions graded stakes horses Vahva, Northern Invader, Reagan’s Wit for WPT
  • Won 2024 Breeders’ Cup Mile with More Than Looks
Cherie DeVaux Kentucky Derby winning horse trainer.

Life Is Good Colt Info


  • Trainer: Cherie DeVaux
  • Sire: Life Is Good
  • Dam: Graceful Fancy
  • Broodmare Sire: Liam's Map
  • Birth Date: March 18, 2025
  • Sex: colt
  • Bred: Kentucky
  • Engagements: Breeders Cup, Kentucky-bred
  • Dosage Index: 1.91
  • Center of distribution: 0.56

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