NEW ORLEANS – With every success, the prices have gotten shorter on Brad Cox-trained winners of the Fair Grounds Oaks. Bonnie South captured the 2020 renewal at 6-1. Travel Column went off at 2-1 a year later. Tarifa last March got home as the 3-2 favorite, but that’s nothing close to the level of support for Cox’s entrant in this Fair Grounds Oaks. Good Cheer has won all five of her starts and if they ran the Kentucky Oaks tomorrow she’d probably be favored over the Bob Baffert-trained Tenma – and there’s nothing close to Tenma entered against her Saturday in the Grade 2, $400,000 Fair Grounds Oaks. Good Cheer paid $2.10 last month in the Rachel Alexandra Stakes, and don’t expect to get much more of a return than that. So, how does it feel sending a horse into an important race who looks on paper like she can’t lose? “It’s pressure, is what it is,” Cox said Wednesday morning at Fair Grounds. “Just hope she gets away from there good.” Good Cheer is one of nine entered in the 1 1/16-mile Fair Grounds Oaks, but no more than eight will start with Bless the Broken’s connections opting for the Bourbonette at Turfway Park. Secret Faith was cross-entered in Saturday’s Crescent City Oaks, a Louisiana-bred stakes, but trainer Jayde Gelner said the filly gets her chance in the open race. Secret Faith is 7-1-0 from eight starts and passed her first two-turn test going seven furlongs at Delta Downs, beating the talented filly Blue Fire. Saturday, she races 1 1/2 furlongs farther and will be asked to see out the long Fair Grounds homestretch. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. “She’s a very classy filly and will do whatever is asked of her,” Gelner said. “I believe it will not be an issue.” Ahavah’s task appears even more daunting. The filly has talent, which she showed in a sharp six-furlong debut score last month, but she also is a sister to classy sprinter Vahva. “She’s got to relax to get the distance, but I think she can handle it given the right circumstances,” trainer Cherie DeVaux said. “If it doesn’t work out, we have other options sprinting.” Ahavah could take an early lead Saturday over Gowells Delight, who set the pace in the Rachel Alexandra before Good Cheer inhaled her and won by 6 1/4 lengths. Girl Math and Jenkin are in deep water. Quickick and Her Laugh could at least get a piece of things. Quickick finished second in the Grade 1 Alcibiades behind the Cox-trained champion filly Immersive and third behind her in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, looking like a lighter-framed 2-year-old who could fill out and improve at age 3. Her comeback run Feb. 23 in the Honeybee at Oaklawn Park yielded a mild fifth, but Quickick can do better this time. Her Laugh won the Untapable Stakes here in December and in her last start, the Suncoast at Tampa Bay Downs, she lost all chance to win after a terrible break. Her Laugh wasn’t prepared to jump when the gate sprang open, trainer Whit Beckman said, and she played catch-up from the start, rallying steadily from last for second, beaten more than six lengths by the solid if unspectacular La Cara. “She’s training great, and everything is right where we want her to be,” said Beckman. But the likes of Her Laugh and Quickick could improve several lengths and not get close to Good Cheer, a Godolphin homebred by Medaglia d’Oro out of Wedding Toast. Good Cheer’s quintet of victories have come by a total of nearly 40 lengths, and while she closes from off the pace, Good Cheer skips athletically around the far turn and rallies relentlessly. The mount of Luis Saez, Good Cheer came around horses winning a pair of Churchill Downs stakes last fall, but in the Rachel Alexandra, her first out following a winter break, she stayed inside, split rivals, and quickly opened daylight once clear. :: Subscribe to the DRF Post Time Email Newsletter: Get the news you need to play today's races!  “When he asks her and she quickens, she really separates herself, and she seems to be putting herself in the race a little more than she used to,” said Cox. The Fair Grounds Oaks is the first 200-point qualifier for the Kentucky Oaks; Good Cheer already has sufficient points to make the 14-runner field. The first five home Saturday get 100, 50, 25, 15, and 5. The payoff will be no good, but there’s a very good chance Good Cheer goes north to Churchill as the unbeaten Kentucky Oaks favorite. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.