‘It was so unreal’: Chandler couple owns So Happy, the horse that placed 9th in the Kentucky Derby

NBC BROADCAST: They’re off in the Kentucky Derby! Renegade getting bunched about on the inside, he did get in a little bit of traffic. Wonder Dean goes out to the front with Six Speed on the outside, and Danon Bourbon is up close with So Happy as well. So it’s these four to set the pace, then Emerging Market …

MARK BRODIE: That was this year’s Kentucky Derby, as heard on NBC. One of the horses getting out to a fast start there was So Happy; he ultimately finished ninth.

But for my next guest, Hans and Ana Maron, the experience was still a thrill. They live in Chandler and own racehorses, including So Happy; they race under the Saints or Sinners banner. It was also the first horse trainer Mark Glatt had brought to the Derby — and it came a few months after his wife had passed away…

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