She Feels Pretty Calls It a Career After Stellar Racing Run

She Feels Pretty, the 2025 champion turf female who collected five Grade 1 victories and $2,550,592 from just 13 career starts, has been retired, trainer Cherie DeVaux announced on X.com March 30. Her departure closes the book on one of the sport's most efficient turf careers in recent memory, and it arrives just days after the network that broadcast many of her biggest moments disclosed its own accelerating wind-down.

The 5-year-old Karakontie mare finished with an 8-3-2 record, a number that undersells the dominance embedded in it: five of those eight wins came at the Grade 1 level. DeVaux, who trained the daughter of the More Than Ready winner Summer Sweet throughout the mare's career, posted a farewell that balanced pride with honest restraint. "Today is one of those bittersweet days that remind you just how special this sport can be," DeVaux wrote. "Horses like her don't come around often. She gave us everything she had, every single time, with a kind of heart and class that you simply can't teach."

The cause, DeVaux told Daily Racing Form, was a persistent physical issue that refused to resolve on schedule. No diagnosis or body part was disclosed; DeVaux confirmed only that there was no longer enough runway to prepare the mare for a 2026 campaign.

For the fans and bettors who followed She Feels Pretty across her career, her exit lands against a significant backdrop of uncertainty about how racing reaches its audience. FanDuel TV, the linear network that has served as horse racing's primary cable home since launching as TVG in 1999, revealed at an internal town hall on March 27 that it is winding down television operations. More than 100 jobs are slated for elimination by the end of November 2026, with roughly 60 percent of the workforce expected to be cut by July 1. In-studio production and on-air hosting roles begin disappearing this summer.

The timeline matters for daily viewers. Andrew Moore, FanDuel's general manager of racing, confirmed that coverage through the Triple Crown season will proceed without immediate programming disruption. Cable carriage extends through 2027, and FanDuel TV currently reaches roughly 30 million households via DirecTV, Dish, Hulu, Comcast, Verizon, Charter/Spectrum, Optimum, and YouTube TV, though that figure has already slipped from approximately 50 million in recent years. The FanDuel Racing and TVG account-deposit wagering platforms will remain fully operational regardless of what happens on the linear side.

The most stable path forward for viewers runs through FanDuel TV+ streaming, accessible on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, and directly through the FanDuel website. For bettors, the TVG and FanDuel Racing apps represent the most durable option as the transition unfolds. FanDuel/TVG processed $2.239 billion in wagers through the Oregon Racing Commission hub in 2025, a 32.8 percent market share of a $6.824 billion pool, the kind of commercial volume that gives the platform a strong incentive to maintain wagering infrastructure even as the television side contracts.

Moore has declined additional press interviews on the transition, and no formal press release or detailed timeline has been issued beyond what emerged from the March 27 town hall. That silence leaves racing's broadcast future unresolved at the precise moment one of its brightest performers has run her last race.