Each time Running Memories sets foot on the racetrack. she makes Don Dizney’s $20,000 OBS July purchase price in 2020 look like a greater bargain.

    At Gulfstream Park yesterday, with Edgar Perez aboard and carrying 125 pounds, the 4-year-old daughter of Bahamian Squall scored a hard-earned victory in the North Miami, a $55,000 handicap at five furlongs over the Tapeta surface. That raised her record to 8-2-1 in 16 starts, and the $33,700 winner’s check boosted her earnings to a healthy $280,180. In 2022 alone, the filly bred by Courtney L. Meagher is 4-1-1 in seven tries with earnings of $150,805, and she’s won four of her last six starts.  

    Among Running Memories’ chief rivals in the North Miami was Miss Auramet, and the two rocketed out of the gate neck and neck, putting up a sizzling :21.41 quarter on the teletimer. On the turn, Running Memories sprinted away from Miss Auramet, then had to fend off fast-closing Poseidon’s Passion nearing the wire. She did it, winning by a neck in :56.51, just three-fifths of a second off the Tapeta track record for the distance. She paid $4.40.

    Bahamian Squall’s leading money-winner sent her sire’s 2022 earnings to less than $46,000 away from his first million-dollar season.