Swing and Sway runs away with American Beauty

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Swing and Sway took the lead soon after the start and never looked back for a 7 3/4-length win in the $125,000 American Beauty run on a sloppy track Saturday at Oaklawn.

Summer House finished second, a length clear of third-place finisher Barbary Hall.

The American Beauty was a six-furlong race for fillies and mares.

Swing and Sway ($24.60) took the field through an opening quarter in 22.36 seconds and a half-mile in 46. In the stretch she separated herself from her rivals, going on to cover the distance on a sealed surface in 1:10.68.

David Cabrera was aboard the winner for Westrock Stables and trainer Ron Moquett.

Swing and Sway was winning her second stakes race behind the $50,000 Niagara for New York-breds in June at Finger Lakes. She is a daughter of Maclean’s Music and a half-sister to Sticksstatelydude, the winner of the Grade 3 Discovery in 2016 at Aqueduct who on Saturday was scratched from the sixth race at Oaklawn.

Swing and Sway picked up a first-place check of $75,000. She has now won 4 of 13 starts for earnings of $243,040.

** Oaklawn announced Saturday it has lifted its ban on horses shipping in from Belmont Park and Laurel that had been put in place after horses at those East Coast tracks tested positive for the equine herpesvirus. Tests have since come back negative and there is no quarantine in place at either Belmont or Laurel.