Good Guys Girl
🐎 Good Guys Girl (GB)
Foaled: 2022 | Sex: Filly | Colour: Bay
Sire: Ubettabelieveit (IRE) | Dam: Piranha (IRE) (by Exceed And Excel (AUS))
Trainer: Ivan Furtado
Why This Horse?
Good Guys Girl is an exciting young sprinting filly whose profile is built around speed, athleticism and long-term potential. Carefully selected by Ursa Major Racing, she represents exactly the type of young horse capable of developing into a competitive handicap performer with time and experience.
As a daughter of first-season sire Ubettabelieveit, she possesses a pedigree packed with pace, while her athletic frame and willing attitude suggest she has all the tools to improve as she matures. Like many young sprinters, every race has been another learning experience, and there is every reason to believe her best performances are still to come.
🏇 Racing Profile
Good Guys Girl began her career in novice and maiden company, where she gained valuable experience against well-bred opposition before progressing into handicap company. While still learning her trade, she showed encouraging signs of natural pace and the ability to travel comfortably through her races, traits that are often seen in improving sprint fillies.
Primarily campaigned over sprint trips, she possesses the speed expected from her pedigree and has continued to strengthen both mentally and physically with each outing. As a lightly raced filly, she remains open to significant improvement, and her profile suggests she has the scope to develop into a competitive handicap sprinter as her experience grows.
🏠 Training
Good Guys Girl was trained by Ivan Furtado, whose Staffordshire yard has earned an excellent reputation for developing young sprinters and all-weather performers. Furtado is well known for giving his horses time to strengthen physically before placing them where they can be most competitive.
Throughout her early education, Good Guys Girl showed a professional attitude both at home and on the racecourse. Her work suggested plenty of natural speed, while her willingness to learn gave the team confidence that she would continue improving with racing. Under Furtado's patient handling, she was given the ideal foundation on which to build her career.
🧬 Pedigree Highlights
Good Guys Girl boasts a pedigree designed for speed.
Her sire, Ubettabelieveit, was one of the quickest juveniles of his generation, winning both the Flying Childers Stakes (Group 2) and the Flying Scotsman Stakes as a two-year-old. A son of the outstanding Kodiac, he has quickly established himself as an exciting young stallion, producing athletic, forward-going offspring with plenty of natural pace.
Her dam, Piranha, is by the internationally renowned Exceed And Excel, one of the world's leading influences for speed and precocity. Exceed And Excel has become an outstanding broodmare sire, adding professionalism, toughness and consistency to countless winners across Europe and Australia. Good Guys Girl also comes from a productive female family, with her dam already producing multiple winners, giving further encouragement that ability runs deep in the pedigree.
🌟 Looking Ahead
Good Guys Girl remains an exciting young filly whose racing career is only just beginning. With a solid education behind her and valuable racecourse experience already gained, she has all the ingredients to continue progressing as she matures.
As she strengthens physically and gains further confidence in handicap company, there is every reason to believe she can develop into a consistent sprint performer capable of rewarding her owners with many enjoyable days at the races. Young horses often improve dramatically with time, and Good Guys Girl has the pedigree, attitude and potential to make that progression.