Her air of invincibility a thing of the past, Good Cheer still has time and opportunity to get back in the race for a championship in the 3-year-old filly division. Good Cheer will look to end a two-race losing streak Saturday when she takes on multiple Grade 1 winners Scottish Lassie and La Cara in the Grade 1, $1 million Cotillion at Parx. Good Cheer won her first seven starts, including the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks in May. Since then, she has finished fifth as the 1-5 favorite in the Acorn at Saratoga and second to Nitrogen in the Grade 1 Alabama. As a dual surface graded winner, Nitrogen goes into the fall as the leader of the 3-year-old filly division. Brad Cox, who trains Good Cheer for Godolphin Racing, knows what’s at stake in the Cotillion, which he hopes leads Good Cheer to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Nov. 1 at Del Mar, where Nitrogen and reigning Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna are likely to be waiting. “She’s still a very good filly, she’s still in contention for champion 3-year-old filly. We hope to make a statement and win a race, and if she does, that does two things,” Cox said this week. “It puts her in play for being champion 3-year-old filly – she’s not the leader right now – and we can go to California with some confidence.” Excuses can be made for Good Cheer’s two losses. In the Acorn, she caught a sloppy Saratoga track that she didn’t seem to handle when finishing 9 1/4 lengths behind La Cara, who didn’t handle the sloppy track that Good Cheer relished at Churchill Downs in the Kentucky Oaks. In the Alabama, Good Cheer may have been compromised by a lack of pace as Nitrogen was sitting just off pacesetting La Cara, took over when she pleased, and won despite drifting some in the stretch. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. “Not taking anything away from the winner, she got a really good trip, we just probably couldn’t close into a lack of pace,” Cox said. The Alabama was run at 1 1/4 miles. The Cotillion is run at 1 1/16 miles, a distance at which Good Cheer is 5 for 5 and one that figures to yield a faster pace. Cox just hopes Good Cheer handles the main track at Parx. “If she takes to the surface, she should get a good setup. There looks to be speed to run at,” Cox said. La Cara, trained by Mark Casse, will certainly be part of the pace. She won the Grade 1 Ashland at 1 1/16 miles and the Acorn at 1 1/8 miles in gate-to-wire fashion. She was forced to miss the Coaching Club American Oaks because the barn she was stabled in was placed under quarantine the day of the race due to a sick horse being in that same barn. In the Alabama, where she finished fourth, she may have been a touch short. Scottish Lassie, trained by Jorge Abreu, was a 15 1/2-length winner of the July 19 CCA Oaks, beating Immersive, last year’s 2-year-old filly champion trained by Cox. Abreu decided to skip the Alabama with Scottish Lassie, believing the filly would benefit from having more time between races. Abreu said his filly doesn’t have to be on the lead to be effective, something she proved in last year’s Grade 1 Frizette, a race she won by nine lengths after stalking the early pace. “She just needs to be forwardly placed, she doesn’t need to be on the lead,” Abreu said. “She can come from laying third or fourth. The way she’s doing right now, the way she’s maturing, I feel pretty comfortable with her, and [Joel] Rosario knows her pretty well.” Rosario, who rode Scottish Lassie for the first time in the CCA Oaks, will be aboard from from post 1. :: Subscribe to the DRF Post Time Email Newsletter: Get the news you need to play today's races!  Dry Powder was beaten 21 1/2 lengths in the CCA Oaks, but bounced back with a 4 1/4-length victory in the Cathryn Sophia, a mile and 70-yard race at Parx on Aug. 19. Luis Saez rode Dry Powder that day but has a commitment to Good Cheer on Saturday. Antonio Fresu, the California-based rider, will be aboard Dry Powder from post 8. “We got the trip we wanted last time and we got a race over the track, which I think is important, especially over there,” said Chad Summers, the trainer of Dry Powder. “I love our post. Obviously, she’s got to run the race of her life but that’s what this time of year is about.” Clicquot, the Grade 3 Indiana Oaks winner, and Indy Bay, the Charles Town Oaks winner, are live longshots. Ourdaydreaminggirl, second in the Cathryn Sophia, and Not Too Late, fifth in the Charles Town Oaks, would need to run significantly better to have a legitimate chance. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.