HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Donald Dizney’s Running Memories, a $20,000 OBS purchase, has hardly been inconvenienced by the reconstruction of the turf course at Gulfstream Park during the spring and summer months, having found the Tapeta surface very much to her liking.

    The 4-year-old daughter of Bahamian Squall is scheduled to seek her third overnight handicap victory in a row on Gulfstream’s Tapeta in Saturday’s Miami Gardens, a 5 ½-furlong test for fillies and mares on the all-weather surface for which she has been assigned highweight of 126 pounds due to her dominance on the ‘other’ infield surface.

    Running Memories, who will concede between eight and 14 pounds to her six rivals, is 3-for-4 on Tapeta overall, her only loss coming in a third-place finish in her all-weather debut during the Championship Meet in which she set a pressured pace before weakening late. The Joe Orseno-trained filly subsequently has captured a 5 ½-furlong optional claiming allowance, the Bay Harbor Islands and the North Miami at five furlongs on Tapeta.

    The Orseno trainee, who captured the five-furlong Golden Beach on turf prior to the Bay Harbor Islands, shipped to Lone Star following the Bay Harbor Islands win for a start in the Chicken Fried, a five-furlong turf stakes in which she got away slowly and raced wide before finishing sixth, beaten by only three lengths. She came off a two-month layoff to narrowly capture the Sept. 11 North Miami.

     “She’s doing really well. The last race came off a two-month layoff from the Texas race, she’s pretty well ready to run this one,” Orseno said.

    Running Memories has been installed at 4-5 in the morning line for the Miami Gardens, in which Jeanne Martin’s Poseidon’s Passion will seek an upset victory after coming up just a neck shy of victory in the North Miami. The Jim Gulick-trained 5-year-old daughter of Poseidon’s Warrior, who captured an optional claiming allowance on Tapeta in her previous start, will carry 118 pounds, eight fewer than Running Memories.    

    “Going 5 ½,  I’m not sure how much that’s going to affect her. Jimmy Gulick’s horse is a pretty nice filly. We just beat her, but I think my filly coming off the Texas race was not quite where she is for this race,” Orseno said. “She kind of needed that one to get her back to where she was.”

    Edgar Perez has the return call on Running Memories, who has run up earnings of $280,180, while Luca Panici will be back aboard Poseidon’s Passion.

    Soto Racing Stable’s Strategy Queen, Past the Wire Racing and Glenn Fagan’s Trevess, Wendell Yates and Ron Brown’s Sequin Lady, ProRacing Stable’s Nikee Kan and Anne-33’s Sammy’s Town round out the field.






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