FRANKLIN, Ky. – The silence was almost deafening Saturday evening at Kentucky Downs when the longest shot in the race, Rumor Has It, led every step of the way in posting a 59-1 upset in the anchor race of the Kentucky Cup turf series, the Grade 3 Kentucky Cup Turf.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - When Big Brown ran down longshot Coal Play to win the Grade 1 Haskell here in August, many thought it was a sign that the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner was tailing off after a long campaign.

Big Brown again got into a dogfight in Saturday's Monmouth Stakes, but the reviews should be more positive after the 3-year-old colt fended off three very talented and accomplished older horses to win the $500,000 turf race.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Music Note continued her love affair with Belmont Park, cruising to an 8 1/2-length win Saturday in the Grade 1, $250,000 Gazelle Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.

The Gazelle was her fourth straight win at Belmont, including three straight Grade 1's: the Mother Goose, the Coaching Club American Oaks, and now the Gazelle.

It was also a solid rebound effort from her loss by a head to Proud Spell in the Grade 1 Alabama at Saratoga.

Jockey Elvis Trujillo will be out a minimum of six to eight weeks after fracturing his right wrist in a spill at Monmouth Park on Friday.

Trujillo was aboard Carson Hall in the seventh race on Friday when apparently the rider's feet slipped out of the irons and he fell. According to his agent, Cliff Collier, Trujillo will undergo surgery.

"They'll wait for the swelling to go down and perform the surgery next week," Collier said.

MIAMI - Things went from bad to worse for local horsemen when track officials announced Friday they were cutting overnight purses 17 percent effective Thursday as well as cutting over $1 million from the stakes schedules for the remainder of this meet and the Tropical Park meet. The lone ray of sunshine is that overnight stakes will retain their $55,000 level.

Frank Mirahmadi has been named the new track announcer at Turf Paradise, replacing Luke Kruytbosch, who died in July.

Mirahmadi, 40, is currently the track announcer at several fairs in Northern California, such as Stockton, which is currently racing. His main race-calling jobs have been at Hialeah and Louisiana Downs, where he called six seasons each. Mirahmadi also is an analyst for TVG, and had roles as race-callers in the movies "Seabiscuit" and "Ruffian."

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Apprentice jockey Melanie Pinto has started to make the local fans sit up and take notice as she has knocked off nine winners in the last two weeks with several of them at attractive prices.

Last Sunday, Pinto brought four runners to the winner's circle, and the previous week she scored with five longshots: Harvey's Victor ($27), Brooking ($46.80), Strathmore ($21.20), Dudley's Lawyer ($33.90), and Spiritwood ($15).

The $1.75 million Turf Festival remains the centerpiece of the Hollywood Park autumn meet, which begins Oct. 29. But one additional week of racing this year - eight weeks through Dec. 21 - has allowed racing secretary Martin Panza to constructively tweak the timing of the jam-packed 2-year-old stakes program.

Eight stakes for 2-year-olds are run each fall at Hollywood, and when the meet is seven weeks long (every other year), the program sometimes trips over itself. Not this time.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Though Lieutenant Ron has raced only twice, he has done enough for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin to consider him an upper echelon 3-year-old.

"We kid about there's Big Brown and there's Big Red, and we have Big Red," McLaughlin said. "And we really feel that way; he's a top horse."

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Stewart Elliott raised his right hand Monday, swore the oath of allegiance, and became a citizen of the United States.

"It's something I should have done a long time ago," Elliott said. "It would have saved a lot of aggravation."

Elliott, born in Toronto, is best known as the rider of the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, Smarty Jones. Elliott was fourth in the Monmouth Park standings as of Friday.