Om N Joy, a four-time stakes winner since April, is in the midst of a farm rest in central California, and will resume training in mid-December for a 2026 campaign intended to start in the Grade 1 B. Wayne Hughes Beholder Mile at Santa Anita on March 7. Trainer Aggie Ordonez said on Wednesday that Om N Joy will have a slow build-up to her return to full training. “I’ll jog here for a good long time before I work her,” she said. “I can try to make that race in March. “She’ll need a couple of serious works to be ready for that kind of company.” Om N Joy, a 3-year-old California-bred filly by Om, won three consecutive stakes for California-bred 3-year-old fillies – the Melair and Fleet Treat Stakes at Santa Anita in the spring and Fleet Treat Stakes at Del Mar in the summer – before winning her first graded stakes in the Grade 3 Torrey Pines Stakes at Del Mar on Aug. 30. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Om N Joy started once this fall, finishing fourth by two lengths in the Grade 2 Raven Run Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at seven furlongs at Keeneland on Oct. 18. The $300,000 Beholder Mile is the leading race in the first half of the year for older fillies and mares in California.  Om N Joy, who has won 5 of 13 starts and earned $415,203, races for breeders Jerry and Connie Baker, Michael Golovko and Terrence Scanlan. Om N Joy is out of Margie’s Minute, the dam of Vodka Vodka, a 4-year-old gelding who has won three of four starts this year. On Oct. 31, Vodka Vodka won a $212,650 allowance race at a mile on dirt, the first race of the first day of the Breeders’ Cup weekend at Del Mar. Co-owned by the Bakers, Ian McLean, William Gorman and Ordonez, Vodka Vodka is a candidate for the Grade 2 Laffit Pincay, Jr., Stakes, a $200,000 race at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita on Dec. 26. Vodka Vodka won a maiden race for California-breds on turf at Del Mar on Aug. 1, finished a troubled seventh in an allowance race on turf for statebreds at Del Mar on Aug. 30, and rebounded to win an allowance race on turf at Santa Anita on Oct. 10. Ordonez said she’d prefer to keep Vodka Vodka on dirt after the Oct. 31 win. “Based on his recent effort, it’s hard to go back to grass,” she said. “He came out of it great.” Margie’s Minute is the dam of the unraced 2-year-old Hot Hot Heat, who is by Conquest Farenheit. Hot Hot Heat was up to five furlongs in workouts at Del Mar in late August before he was taken out of training. He will resume training this winter at Santa Anita, Ordonez said. “We think a whole lot of him,” Ordonez said. “That mare is a rockstar.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.