Kentucky Derby video: So Happy works well in the sunshine

2026 Kentucky Derby Clocker: So Happy does what is needed, while Emerging Market excels

The 2026 Churchill Downs spring meeting does not open until Saturday but there was plenty of action out on the racetrack Friday morning, especially during the workout window reserved for Kentucky Derby and Oaks hopefuls, with four potential Derby starters and a handful of possible Oaks runners working in rapid-fire order.

Kentucky Derby video: So Happy works well in the sunshine

Louisville, Ky. Sunny, calm and 65 degrees. The weather could not have been nicer Friday morning for So Happy to have his final breeze before Kentucky Derby 2026. Trainer Mark Glatt made the 1:00.2 workout covering five furlongs sound like the epitome of relaxed for his Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby winner. “He’s the type of horse that just kind of goes through the motions in the morning,” Glatt told reporters outside barn 42 at Churchill Downs. “Of…