So Happy's Derby Run: Heartbreak & Hope

0:00On April 28th, so happy is charging into the Kentucky Derby as a total underdog, trained by Mark Glatt, who's chasing his first shot at the big race. After more than 30 years in the game, Mark's wife, Dina, passed from heart failure just over a month after the horse's big win in the San Vicente sticks back in January. She was. 57. Now Mark wears a bracelet with her ashes to keep her close. His coat came cheap, snagged for $150,000 as a two-year-old in training last March, after flipping for just $12,000, and $20,000 as a yearling. He's out of the champ's sprinter run-happy, bred by 94-year-old John Miller, whose family legacy runs deep and racing. His wife Linda died five. Years back on the anniversary of so happy's loan loss, Jackie Mike Smith, who's 60 and eyeing the record as old as Derby winner, calls it an emotional rollercoaster for Mark pure joy mixed with grief. But he swears Dina's spirit is right there, pushing them.

1:01Owners like Anna and Hans Moran say the horses dragged them on this wild ride, full of daily worries but straight up thrilling. So happy stepping up big time, crushing two turns in his last out and pulling away late, proving the one and a quarter mile Derby distance ain't no. He opened at 15-1 in a 20-horse field, stacked with favorites like Renegade and Commandment, but he's improving every race game phase on. When it counts, a Derby win would top everything for Mark except his kids' births, etching his name and history while showing racing ain't just for kings, families can. Ball too, with all this heartbreak and hustle, so happy's carrying hope, legacy, and maybe a little guardian angel across the finish line. This has been Global News Today, powered by AI.