OCEANPORT, N.J. - The Grade 2 Meadowlands Breeders' Cup gets a solid purse increase and four graded stakes return this fall at Monmouth Park and The Meadowlands Racetrack.

The New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority finally released the stakes schedule for the post-Labor Day period at Monmouth through Sept. 26 and the Meadowlands meet from Oct. 1 through Nov. 13.

The Meadowlands Cup, at 1 1/8 miles on Oct. 8, will be worth $500,000, a $100,000 boost over last year.

The four returning graded stakes were dropped last year in a move to save money.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - You will not have to wait long for the highest-class race at Arlington Park on Wednesday. But for the best horse in it, the wait has been long, indeed.

It has been 10 months since a jockey was given a leg up on My Sweet Heart and the filly sent was out to race. She makes her comeback in Wednesday's first race, a second-level Illinois-bred allowance at one mile on dirt.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Kat Kool, from trainer Red Smith's red-hot stable, was a beaten favorite two races ago in the Alberta Derby at Stampede Park.

But after his smashing victory in the 1 5/16-mile Count Lathum Stakes here on Saturday, Kat Kool is a top contender for the $250,000 Canadian Derby on Aug. 28.

Kat Kool, a Kentucky-bred ridden by Quincy Welch, won by 4 1/2 lengths with Tamingo second and Ol Fifty another five lengths back in third in the field of five.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Tom Doutrich will bow out after one year as the racing secretary at Bay Meadows and Golden Gate Fields after the Bay Meadows Fair, which opens Wednesday.

Doutrich resigned and will return to being a jockey agent for Chance Rollins after the two-week fair meeting, the toughest meet of the year for any racing secretary.

"I didn't want to be the racing secretary for over 200 days a year," Doutrich said. "If you look at most racing secretaries around the nation, you'll see they do the job only 100 or so days a year."

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Although she has been without a victory on the fair circuit this year, Black Ruby, the champion racing mule, has been perhaps the circuit's biggest attraction.

But now a lingering injury is threatening to end her career.

A 12-year-old, Black Ruby was not even entered in Sunday's Santa Rosa Mule Championship, which was won by Sarah Nelson, with Taz second and Smoking Joe third after a poor start.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Josie Carroll is well-equipped for Wednesday's Woodbine feature, a second-level allowance scheduled for a mile on the grass.

Carroll has stakes winner Bachelor Blues in the body of the race and has entered the upwardly-mobile Tic Tac Man for the main track only.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - A Bit O' Gold and Niigon, who split the first two legs of the Canadian Triple Crown, saw action on different fronts last weekend.

A Bit O'Gold, winner of Fort Erie's 1 3/16-mile Prince of Wales on July 18, tried turf and 1 1/2 miles for the first time at Woodbine in Sunday's Breeders' Stakes, the final leg of the Canadian Triple.

And, with Jono Jones contributing a flawless ride, A Bit O'Gold passed both tests with flying colors, scoring by 1 3/4 lengths over fellow Canadian-breds.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Heavily favored Thresher ($3) had no problems defeating six rivals to win the $54,595 Cavonnier Juvenile Stakes at the Sonoma County Fair on Sunday.

Despite an incident in the gate that forced Sharp Strider to scratch and the rest of the field to be taken out of the gate and reloaded, Thresher was not bothered. He broke alertly and held the lead despite a challenge from Game Boy Johnny down the backstretch.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The Monday program at Del Mar will feature a pick six carryover of $255,815, which was created by Miss Loren's upset win at 34-1 in Sunday's Clement Hirsch Handicap.

The pick six covers the third through eighth races, including two turf races, three sprints on dirt and one route race on dirt.

The third leg is run over a mile on turf for $70,000 to $80,000 claimers. Spinelessjellyfish, a multiple stakes winner, takes a drop in class, but must beat Dell Place (the 2-1 morning line favorite) and Sweet Stepper.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Miss Loren, the longest shot in the field at 34-1, rallied from fifth to post a shocking upset in Sunday's $300,000 at Del Mar.

The victory in the Grade 2 Hirsch marked the most lucrative win in the career of trainer Luis Seglin, 58, who has a 10-horse stable.

Ridden by Jon Court, Miss Loren ($70) finished 1 1/16 miles in 1:42.93. She was fifth on the backstretch, racing four lengths off pacesetter Royally Chosen, who set fractions of 22.59 and 46.09 seconds.