Miss Mosaic holds off Joy's Rocket in American Beauty

Miss Mosaic took the lead in the stretch and held off a charging Joy’s Rocket to win the first stakes race of her career Saturday in the $150,000 American Beauty at Oaklawn Park.

Miss Mosaic won by a neck over Joy’s Rocket, while it was another half-length back in third to Ain’t No Elmers.

The American Beauty was a six-furlong race for fillies and mares. Miss Mosaic ($16.80) invaded from Kentucky for the race and tracked leader Sarah Harper through an opening quarter in 21.97 seconds and a half-mile in 45.72. The eventual winner moved to the fore from there, and covered the distance on a fast track in 1:10.71.

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“She ran so big,” David Cabrera, who was aboard Miss Mosaic, said in a post-race interview broadcast by Oaklawn.

“I had all I needed.”

Ben Colebrook trains Miss Mosaic for Keystone Racing.

Miss Mosaic is a 6-year-old daughter of Verrazano and a half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner Miss Temple City, an earner of $1.6 million. Miss Mosaic has now won 3 of 19 starts and the first-place check of $90,000 pushed her earnings to $292,759.