So Happy (horse)
| So Happy | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Runhappy |
| Grandsire | Super Saver |
| Dam | So Cunning |
| Damsire | Blame |
| Sex | Colt |
| Foaled | April 26, 2023[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Color | Bay |
| Breeder | Leverett S. Miller |
| Owner | Norman Stables & Saints or Sinners |
| Trainer | Mark Glatt |
| Record | 4: 3 - 0 - 1 |
| Earnings | US$480,000[2] |
| Major wins | |
| San Vicente Stakes (2026) Santa Anita Derby (2026) | |
| Last updated on April 21, 2026 | |
So Happy (foaled April 26, 2023) is a Grade I winning American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2026 Santa Anita Derby.
Background
So Happy is a bay colt who was bred in Kentucky by Leverett S. Miller and is out his of a lightly raced mare, So Cunning.[3] So Cunning's sire is Blame, the 2010 American Champion Older Male Horse.
So Cunning descends from the winning Staff Writer mare So Divine. So Divine was the first filly that Miller bought his wife, Linda after they married and many of the offspring the couple owned in partnership, or she owned herself, have carried the word "So" in their names. An average racehorse, So Divine went on to be a solid producer. Included in her progeny was 1996 Grade III Virginia Handicap at Calder Race Course winner Race Artist, multiple stakes winner So Dashing, stakes winner So Charming, and So Frank, who set track records at Bluegrass Downs in Paducah, Kentucky for both one and two miles.[4]
So Happy's sire is Runhappy, the 2015 US Sprint Champion who won the Grade I Breeders' Cup Sprint that year. Runhappy was sold in 2025 for stud duties in South Korea.[3]
So Happy had initially been sold for $12,000 as a weanling at the 2023 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale and $20,000 as a yearling at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale. Trainer Michael Glatt bought the colt as an agent for $150,000 at the 2025 Ocala Breeders' Sales March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training for Hans and Ana Maron's Saints or Sinners and Robert Norman's Norman Stables.[3]
Statistics
| Date | Distance | Race | Grade | Track | Odds | Field | Finish | Winning Time |
Winning (Losing) Margin |
Jockey | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 – Two-year-old season | |||||||||||
| Nov 22, 2025 | 6+1⁄2 furlongs | Maiden Special Weight | Del Mar | 38.00 | 10 | 1 | 1:10.71 | 3⁄4 length | Mike E. Smith | [5] | |
| 2026 – Three-year-old season | |||||||||||
| Jan 10, 2026 | 7 furlongs | San Vicente Stakes | II | Santa Anita | 2.90 | 5 | 1 | 1:21.12 | 2 lengths | Mike E. Smith | [6] |
| Feb 26, 2026 | 1+1⁄16 miles | San Felipe Stakes | II | Santa Anita | 2.10 | 7 | 3 | 1:42.92 | (2+1⁄4 lengths) | Mike E. Smith | [7] |
| Apr 4, 2026 | 1+1⁄8 miles | Santa Anita Derby | I | Santa Anita | 7.30 | 7 | 1 | 1:49.56 | 2+3⁄4 length | Mike E. Smith | [8] |
| May 2, 2026 | 1+1⁄4 miles | Kentucky Derby | I | Churchill Downs | 5.90 | 18 | 9 | 2:02.27 | (7+1⁄2 lengths) | Mike E. Smith | [9] |
Notes:
An (*) asterisk after the odds means So Happy was the post-time favorite.
Pedigree
| Sire Runhappy (2012) |
Super Saver (2007) |
Maria's Mon (1993) |
Wavering Monarch (1979) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlotta Maria (1984) | |||
| Supercharger (1995) |
A.P. Indy (1989) | ||
| Get Lucky (1988) | |||
| Bella Jolie (2007) |
Broken Vow (1997) |
Unbridled (1987) | |
| Wedding Vow (1988) | |||
| Jolie Boutique (1994) |
Northern Jove (1968) | ||
| Mimi la Sardine (1988) | |||
| Dam So Cunning (2016) |
Blame (2008) |
Arch (1995) |
Kris S. (1977) |
| Aurora (1988) | |||
| Liable (1995) |
Seeking The Gold (1985) | ||
| Bound (1984) | |||
| So Glitzy (2004) |
Gilded Time (1990) |
Timeless Moment (1970) | |
| Gilded Lily (1979) | |||
| So Ritzy (1995) |
Darn the Alarm (1981) | ||
| So Divine (1979) (family A15)[10] |
References
- 1 2 "Pedigree of So Happy". Equineline. Retrieved April 21, 2026.
- ↑ "Profile of So Happy". Equibase. Retrieved April 20, 2026.
- 1 2 3 Gantz, Tracy (April 4, 2026). "So Happy Answers Distance Test in Santa Anita Derby; Potente holds second and also appears Kentucky Derby (G1) bound". bloodhorse.com. Retrieved April 21, 2026.
- ↑ Collins, Sean (January 11, 2026). "So Happy So Rewarding for Breeder Miller; So Happy is a son of the last mare Miller owned in partnership with his late wife". bloodhorse.com. Retrieved April 21, 2026.
- ↑ "Chart for November 22, 2025 Maiden Special Weight at Del Mar - race 9". www.equibase.com. November 22, 2025. Retrieved April 21, 2026.
- ↑ "2026 San Vicente Stakes Grade 2 – (race 5)" (PDF). Equibase. 21 April 2026. Retrieved 21 April 2026.
- ↑ "2026 San Felipe Stakes presented by DK Horse Grade 2 – (race 8)" (PDF). Equibase. 26 February 2026. Retrieved 21 April 2026.
- ↑ "Santa Anita Derby Grade 1 - (Race 10)" (PDF). equibase. 4 April 2026. Retrieved 4 April 2026.
- ↑ "CHURCHILL DOWNS - May 2, 2026 - Race 12 - Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve" (PDF). Equibase. May 2, 2026. Retrieved May 2, 2026.
- ↑ "Miss Bell - Family A15". bloodlines.net. Archived from the original on February 16, 2020. Retrieved April 21, 2026.