Exercise rider Bulfrano Andres Bahena, better known as “Chano” on the Gulfstream Park backstretch, was scheduled to undergo back surgery at Jackson Memorial hospital on Wednesday to repair serious injuries he incurred as a result of a mishap in a morning workout Sunday.

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Big Data was a decisive winner of a Gulfstream Park allowance Sunday in a performance that will move him into stakes company, according to trainer Michael Lerman.

Big Data rolled by 3 1/4 lengths in a first-level allowance at a mile. For the effort, he earned a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 87. The number was up from Big Data’s prior top number of 80, which was earned for a runner-up finish at the same level in June.

In January 2022, as farms around Kentucky began delivering new foals, the fields were as empty as they’d ever been at Pin Oak Stud in Versailles, Ky. Josephine Abercrombie had been winding down commercial operations at the farm, which she and her father had purchased in the 1950s and which she had developed into a prominent nursery. The farm’s active broodmares and their weanlings had been sold in a dispersal the prior September, and its yearlings had also been sold. Abercrombie died peacefully at her home on the farm Jan. 5, 2022, just 10 days shy of her 96th birthday.

Never mind that she faced some of the world’s best sprinters, Twilight Gleaming left trainer Wesley Ward surprised when she finished 16th of 17 in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot in England last month.

“It was a little bit of a head-scratcher,” Ward said Wednesday. “Being a Group 1 race at Royal Ascot, you can forgive that. That was the only race she’s run badly in her whole career.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – As well as Drew’s Gold has run winning four of his five career starts, trainer and part-owner James Chapman expects his best performance to date when he sends him out in Friday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Amsterdam Stakes for 3-year-old sprinters at Saratoga.

“He’ll run better than he’s ever run,” Chapman said Wednesday. “If there’s something that’s going to jump with him then so be it. I know he ran a big Beyer number last time, but he’ll move forward again.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – There’s an intriguing new shooter in the second leg of the Woodbine Turf Sprint Series on Friday, the Gun Runner gelding Arms, who makes his turf debut in the $25,000 starter allowance/$40,000 claimer going six furlongs.

Dirt Road Red will attempt to win for the fifth consecutive time in Friday’s $25,000 claiming feature at Emerald Downs. The son of Clubhouse Ride is owned and trained by Justin Evans, who has retained Alex Cruz to ride in the six-furlong contest.

Having begun his career at Emerald Downs as a 2-year-old in 2019 with four straight losses, Dirt Road Red is a nose away from being a perfect 5 for 5 in his 2023 Emerald Downs campaign. Those are his only nine starts at Emerald.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Nest and Clairiere, who finished first and second, respectively, in Sunday’s Grade 2 Shuvee Stakes, are expected to meet for a second time this meet in the Grade 1, $500,000 Personal Ensign on Aug. 25.

Nest returned from an 8 1/2-month layoff to defeat Clairiere by 2 1/4 lengths in the Shuvee, taking advantage of a soft early pace that allowed jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. to wait as long as possible to ask his filly to run. She got the jump on Clairiere and jockey Joel Rosario.