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Old 11-09-2018, 12:33 AM   #1
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Runhappy, the documentary...

One of my all-time favorites! Found him early-on at Turfway Park, and although running very green, he sure got my attention.


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Old 11-09-2018, 10:58 AM   #2
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Looking forward to seeing it. You never hear about that horse any more.
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Old 11-09-2018, 11:01 AM   #3
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Looking forward to seeing it. You never hear about that horse any more.
Yeah. Not at all. They should sponsor some NYRA stakes or something.
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Old 11-09-2018, 04:02 PM   #4
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Looks like his weanlings were selling quite nicely this week so that advertising is paying off perhaps. His debut race is one of my all-time faves to watch
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Old 11-11-2018, 04:07 PM   #5
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Looking forward to seeing it. You never hear about that horse any more.
Really? They run ads for him all the time on TVG showing him racing and now his foals.
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Old 11-11-2018, 04:12 PM   #6
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Yeah. Not at all. They should sponsor some NYRA stakes or something.
I think the Travers is sponsored by him. It's even called the Runhappy Travers.
I was a big fan of his. It's a shame he went off form in his comeback races. They were even pointing him towards the BC Classic.
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Really? They run ads for him all the time on TVG showing him racing and now his foals.

This is why we need a font to show sarcasm
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Tell me about it. That's why I never text. Give me a real human voice where I can detect tones anytime.
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Old 11-13-2018, 10:50 PM   #10
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This is a serious question so I won’t even mention her name because I believe it’s forbidden on here. My question is does MB have anything to do with how successful Run Happy was? Does she have anything to do with how successful this horse has been marketed?
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Tell me about it. That's why I never text. Give me a real human voice where I can detect tones anytime.
Yeah, imagine if you had nearly 2000 posts on a medium where everything went by how you interpreted text with no tone. That would be really crazy. Good thing you're steering clear of that texting.

(That was sarcasm.)
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This is a serious question so I won’t even mention her name because I believe it’s forbidden on here. My question is does MB have anything to do with how successful Run Happy was? Does she have anything to do with how successful this horse has been marketed?
I would say no, some horses are great despite what connections do.

A 28 minute show on youtube, linked a couple posts above by picojim.
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Old 08-05-2019, 07:36 PM   #13
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This is a serious question so I won’t even mention her name because I believe it’s forbidden on here. My question is does MB have anything to do with how successful Run Happy was? Does she have anything to do with how successful this horse has been marketed?
My guess is (1) Borell was a perfectly competent at training a good horse; (2) many other people, given the opportunity to train a good horse, would probably also do a good job at it, though some might screw it up; and (3) obviously whatever Borell's talents as a horsewoman, her conduct speaks for itself.
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Old 08-06-2019, 10:03 AM   #15
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This is a serious question so I won’t even mention her name because I believe it’s forbidden on here. My question is does MB have anything to do with how successful Run Happy was? Does she have anything to do with how successful this horse has been marketed?
Most trainers will tell you that the easiest horses to train are often the best ones. They're already good, already talented, nothing to particularly figure out with them. It's not as though MB was the horse's trainer from the beginning either.

I have no idea what you even mean about the marketing question. What does she have to do with his marketing?
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