Om N Joy First Stakes Winner for Harris Farms' Om
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Om N Joy wins the Evening Jewel Stakes at Santa Anita Park
Om N Joy became the first black-type stakes winner for third-crop sire Om in capturing the April 5 Evening Jewel Stakes at Santa Anita Park.
Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux piloted the winner in the $126,000 race for California-bred 3-year-old fillies, guiding his mount from sixth to first. Blocked in traffic. she exploded when given a seam to prevail by 2 1/2 lengths over runner-up Sunset Grazen , completing 6 1/2 furlongs on a track in 1:17.75. She paid $6.20 in capturing her second straight race.
Hot Girl Walk ran third.
"She got to 'em," Desormeaux said. "They were all coming back to her down the stretch. I picked a pocket for her to jump through; she took off like she was going to plow through it if she had to."
The long-legged winner, trained by Aggie Ordonez for owners Connie and Jerry Baker, Michael Golovko, and Terrence Scanlan, was bred by the Bakers out of the Hard Spun mare Margie's Minute . Om N Joy is 2-0-4 in nine starts with earnings of $150,640.
Ordonez notched her first stakes win as a trainer in the Evening Jewel.
A third-crop sire who entered stud in 2020, Om stands at Harris Farms in California for $5,000. A four-time graded stakes winner who placed in four grade 1s, including two runnings of the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T), Om went 7-7-6 in 32 starts and earned $1,355,082 for the Sareen Family Trust. He ran first or second in 11 graded stakes from ages 3 to 7.