Om N Joy © Benoit Photo

An even dozen 3-year-old California-bred fillies will face starter Jay Slender Friday afternoon in the 40th edition of the $150,000 Fleet Treat Stakes. It will go as Race 7 on an eight-race card.

The stakes is one of 31 Cal-bred offerings that are part of the Golden State Series that carries at total of $3.825 million in purses and are run at racetracks in the state. Eight of those events are contested at Del Mar.

Likely favorite in the seven-panel Fleet Treat is Baker, Golovka or Scanlan, et al’s Om N Joy, a chestnut daughter of the young stallion Om who comes into the test on a three-race win streak. It took her eight tries to break her maiden, but once she got that figured out she went on a roll – winning back-to-back Cal-bred stakes at Santa Anita in April and May.

She’s now banked $225,640 and will have the saddle services of Hall of Famer Kent Desormeaux Friday, the man who was on her back for her pair of stakes scores. They’ll break from Post 3 in the full field.

Chief threats to the top one are likely to be a pair of lightly raced fillies in Battle Born Racing Stable or Branch’s Drink This Cup and Nick Alexander’s Ellen Jorth.

The former, by Stay Thirsty, comes in from the east where she won twice in three starts at Delaware Park, including an allowance tally in her most recent outing on June 11. She races out of the barn of Michael Stidham and will be handled Friday by Juan Hernandez.

Ellen Jorth is a homebred who’ll be making the third start of her career. She tries dirt racing for the first time after a win and a third on the grass at Santa Anita. Phil D’Amato conditions the gray by Grazen and Antonio Fresu will be in the saddle.

First post for the Friday program is slated for 4 p.m. The Fleet Treat has a post time of approximately 7 p.m.