Drosselmeyer filly tallies first stakes victory

Find Joy found her best stride in the final furlong of Sunday’s $50,000 Kent S. at Emerald Downs, powering past Brookys Star for a 1 1/4-length victory.

The 3-year-old filly is the first stakes winner for Drosselmeyer, who has also accounted for a pair of graded stakes-placed winners and Rushaway S. runner-up Virtual Machine in 2016.

Find Joy already had stakes-placings at Santa Anita at two and in May at Emerald Downs prior to her win in Sunday’s 1 1/16-mile contest. Bred in Kentucky by Eico Stable, Find Joy’s dam Hurricane Hannah has produced six multiple winners and is a sister to a trio of stakes winners herself, including Lovely Lil, winner of the Go For Wand H. (G2).

Find Joy sold for $185,000 at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Summer Horses of Racing Age sale.