Last week was relatively quiet leading toward the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, with the $150,000 Sunday Silence Stakes at Louisiana Downs the only grass stakes run for 2-year-old males.

City Style proved an upset winner of that 1 1/16-mile race at 19-1 odds, closing from far back to score going away in a fast-paced race. City Style, a gelded son of City Zip owned by Stonerside Farm and trained by Cheryl Asmussen, earned a 79 Beyer Speed Figure for his two-length triumph.

"That was a pleasant surprise," Stonerside racing manager John Adger said.

Stardom Bound, who came from far off the pace to record her first career victory in runaway fashion in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante, is the top-ranked 2-year-old filly in the West. The undefeated Mani Bhavan, who used her high speed to win the Grade 1 Spinaway and Grade 2 Adirondack at Saratoga in her last two starts, is the most accomplished 2-year-old filly in the East. And their opposing approaches to the Juvenile Fillies is representative of the continent that separates them.

It wasn't run at a mile in its inaugural year last year and will be run on a synthetic surface this year and next, so the $1 million Dirt Mile remains racing's richest misnomer until 2010 at the earliest.

Four weeks out, it's anyone's guess what the field will look like, because "definitely maybe" is the common refrain from most barns with logical-looking contenders. This is due to several reasons:

The sudden retirement of Benny the Bull, the recent inactivity of several key members in the division, and a lack of experience over artificial racing surfaces by a majority of the top contenders has created an air of uncertainty about this year's Breeders' Cup Sprint. Some of the uncertainty should be cleared up by the end of racing on Saturday.

The six-furlong Sprint will be decided on the Pro-Ride surface at Santa Anita on Oct. 25.

The Breeders' Cup will put in place a Super High Five wager on each day of this year's two-day event on Oct. 24-25 at Santa Anita Park in Southern California, the organization announced on Monday.

ARCADIA, Calif. - With all the fanfare of a visiting dignitary, Curlin arrived at Santa Anita on Sunday, and while his connections have yet to commit definitively to the Breeders' Cup Classic on Oct. 25, his presence at Santa Anita, coupled with an outstanding weekend of racing both at Santa Anita and Belmont Park, took interest in this year's Breeders' Cup out of idle and into overdrive.

ARCADIA, Calif. - With the sequence of Breeders' Cup races rejiggered for this year, the $2 million Ladies' Classic, annually one of the best races on the Saturday card but often overshadowed by the $5 million Classic, now is the premier event of the Friday card.

The odds of C Karma getting to any race, let alone a Breeders' Cup race, were certainly stacked against her after she was cut up badly in a paddock accident as a yearling in Florida.

Her Woodbine-based trainer, Greg De Gannes, said C Karma ran into a big metal gate during a lightning storm when she was turned out with several other yearlings.

"She got hung up on her legs," said De Gannes. "It took three to four months to get the wounds healed up to where you could even think about the next step of her career."

When North American horseplayers think "turf sprint," they usually think of a grass race at 5 or 5 1/2 furlongs. But given the unique layout of the Santa Anita turf track, the first two runnings of the $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (2008 and 2009) will be run at 6 1/2 furlongs on the famed downhill course.

Delosvientos, who remained unbeaten at 1 1/2 miles with his win in the $97,000 Point Given at Monmouth Park last Sunday, will not advance to the $500,000 Breeders' Cup Marathon for religious reasons, according to trainer Giuseppe Iadisernia.

Iadisernia is a Seventh-day Adventist, a faith that observes Saturday as the Sabbath and a day in which work should be minimal. Iadisernia said he had hoped the Marathon, a 1 1/2-mile race new to the Breeders' Cup, would be part of the Friday card on Oct. 24.