Big Data has returned to his South Florida base of Palm Meadows after winning his stakes debut in the $200,000 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs on Saturday. His next road trip could come later this month, trainer Michael Lerman said.

Big Data is being considered for a couple of different races the weekend of Sept. 23-24. He earned a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 91 in the Super Derby.

“He didn’t seem to be too stressed by the trip,” Lerman said Monday. “I have a feeling I’m going to be sending him back to the track sooner rather than later.”

In a selective marketplace where buyers and agents are looking to add perfect yearlings to their racing and breeding programs, radiographs of young horses have been used to narrow prospective targets.

But can a scan of a still-developing horse accurately predict a horse’s potential as a racehorse?

Five years ago, a leggy bay colt stepped into the ring at the Keeneland September yearling sale. His sire, Into Mischief, was on the rise, but had not yet claimed a general sire title or sired an Eclipse Award champion or classic winner. A May foal, the colt was slated as Hip No. 2616, deep in the second week of the marathon sale, and was purchased for $350,000.

More than 1,000 yearlings are set to be presented to upper-market buyers during the first four days – or two books – of the Keeneland September yearling sale. With stellar pedigrees one factor in being selected into those books, it would be impossible to highlight every sibling to or yearling out of a Grade 1 winner. However, some may have some extra attention due to the commercial results of close family members, potential residual value as breeding stock, or recent updates to the family.

The Keeneland September yearling sale is considered the bellwether for the North American marketplace, offering by far the largest number of yearlings of any domestic sale, at a number of price points. The sale is a globally essential marketplace that reveals how the American Thoroughbred is viewed on the international stage.

This year’s 80th edition of the sale has cataloged 4,198 yearlings in 12 sessions, as of Aug. 28. Last year’s sale came in with a similar catalog, with 4,147 yearlings cataloged to a sale that eventually finished with a record gross, average, and median.

Historic Runnymede Farm will be hoping for more Mage magic in its Keeneland September yearling consignment this month.

The Paris, Ky., nursery, which has been in operation for 156 years, foaled, raised, and sold this year’s Kentucky Derby winner. After kicking off this yearling sale season in strong fashion at Fasig-Tipton in Saratoga, Runnymede now brings the bulk of its yearling crop to Keeneland September – including a half-brother to Mage.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The undefeated filly Dreamfyre will have had one workout in the last month when she starts in Saturday’s Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante at seven furlongs for 2-year-old fillies.

Dreamfyre won the Grade 3 Sorrento Stakes at six furlongs on Aug. 12 at Del Mar and worked a half-mile in 48.80 seconds on Aug. 28. Trainer O.J. Jauregui said Dreamfyre had a strong gallop on Monday and will be exercised in a similar way leading to the $300,000 Del Mar Debutante.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Kentucky Derby winner Mage, who finished a disappointing seventh and last in the Grade 1 Travers, will depart Saratoga on Tuesday for the Thoroughbred Training Center in Lexington, Ky., where he will resume regular training with the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 4 at Santa Anita his primary goal at the present time.

Trainer Gustavo Delgado said Mage has done little more than jog over the Oklahoma training track since the Travers.