Prairie Meadows race results

Last year's GI Kentucky Oaks victress Good Cheer (Medaglia d'Oro) got her 2026 campaign off to a winning start with a stylish victory in the Iowa Distaff Friday night at Prairie Meadows. Winless since her victory in the aforementioned Spring marquee for fillies last season, Good Cheer was off the board in the GI Acorn and GI Cotillion Stakes, but did manage to squeeze in a runner-up effort in the GI Alabama Stakes in between those two starts. She went onto the sidelines after the September Grade I contest at...

She's not just a California girl. Mizumi (Justify) took her show on the road Friday night, and put in a workman-like effort to win the Iowa Oaks at Prairie Meadows. A debut winner May 2 at Santa Anita Park, she turned around June 13 to collect her first black-type victory in the GIII Summertime Oaks. The betting public decided not to fix what isn't broken and made her the 3-5 favorite against this shortened field. Setting up shop in the back, Mizumi tracked the action in front of her as...