Godetia's dam Native Glitter won one minor race but was a full-sister to Shimmy Dancer (winner of the Gazelle Handicap) and a half-sister to Nantallah (sire of Moccasin).
On 12 May, Godetia was made the 4/6 favourite against eleven opponents the Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh with the Phoenix Stakes winner Kilijaro (the top-rated two-year-old filly in Ireland in 1978) second choice in the betting on 6/1.
[2] On 9 June, Godetia was sent to England and started the strongly-fancied[4] second favourite for the 201st running of the Oaks Stakes over one and a half miles on soft ground at Epsom Downs Racecourse.
Although she looked impressive in the paddock before the race she ran very poorly, struggling to match the early pace, dropping from contention at half way and finishing ninth of the fourteen runners behind Scintillate.
Godetia was dropped back in distance for the ten furlong Pretty Polly Stakes (then restricted to three-year-olds) at the Curragh and won by six lengths from Fair Davinia and twelve others.
[2] In 1980 Godetia was transferred to the United States where she raced in the colours of Strawbridge's Augustin Stables and was trained by Jonathan Sheppard but failed to reproduce her European form.
[5] In 1978, the independent Timeform organisation awarded Godetia a rating of 106 p (the "p" indicating that she was probably capable of making significantly more than normal improvement), twenty-six pounds behind their top-rated two-year-old filly Sigy.
In their annual Racehorses of 1978 Timeform praised her "great potential" and commented "We shouldn't be surprised if Godetia were to develop into a leading fancy for the One Thousand Guineas".
[3] In 1979 the organisation rated her on 119, fourteen pounds inferior to the top three-year-old filly Three Troikas, commenting that her record was that of a poor traveller, who only showed her best form in Ireland.