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Cherie DeVaux
Record at Keeneland
Career Firsts
Starters in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes
At Keeneland
Recorded her first win here during the 2019 Fall Meet.
First stakes win at the track came during the 2023 Fall Meet with Vahva in the Lexus Raven Run (G2).
During the 2024 Fall Meet sent out She Feels Pretty to win the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) Presented by Dixiana and Brilliant Berti to win the Bryan Station (G3). Ran second in the Coolmore Turf Mile (G1) with More Than Looks, who next won the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) Presented by PDJF at Del Mar.
She Feels Pretty was nominated for 2024 Eclipse Awards in two categories: 3-year-old filly and female turf horse.
Maintains a year-round training operation at Keeneland.
Career
Breeders’ Cup win: 2024 Mile with More Than Looks
Through Feb. 25, has 222 wins with earnings exceeding $23 million in her career.
Click here for her Equibase career record.
Background
Cherie is from the Saratoga Springs, New York, area, and her family has been involved in Standardbred racing. Her brother Jimmy has won more than 5,000 races as a driver/trainer.
After studying pre-med in college, Cherie decided to pursue a life with horses. She gravitated toward the Thoroughbred world when she became a stable worker for trainer Chuck Simon at Saratoga. She spent six years working for Simon before transferring to trainer Chad Brown’s operation, where she became an assistant.
Cherie, who spent eight years with Brown, was instrumental in champion Lady Eli’s return to racing after she recovered from laminitis and did not compete for more than a year.
She obtained her trainer’s license in 2018 and sent out her first winner in March 2019.
Cherie is married to Central Kentucky-based bloodstock agent David Ingordo. Her younger sister Adrianne began training in September 2024. Adrianne worked for Cherie for four years.