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The New York State Gaming Commission announced Oct. 3 that it has amended its findings with regard to embattled trainer Linda Rice. After being ordered to reconsider the matter by the Appellate Division of a New York State Supreme Court, the commission decided to fine Rice $100,000 in lieu of the three-year license revocation and $50,000 fine it had initially assigned her.

Rice was found to have received inappropriate insider information from the racing office at New York Racing Association racetracks, enabling her to make decisions about where her horses would be most competitive between 2011 and 2015. The NYSGC issued the original fine and revocation in 2021 after a three-year investigation into a claim that she paid for the insider information.

Rice appealed that decision and received a stay of the revocation. This summer, the appeals court determined both that there was “substantial evidence” to support the commission's claim that Rice knew it was wrong to receive the information, but also that the three-year penalty “is so disproportionate to the offense and shockingly unfair as to constitute an abuse of discretion as a matter of law.”

The matter was remanded to the commission for further consideration. According to a report during a regularly-scheduled meeting of the commission Tuesday, attorneys for both Rice and the commission were asked to submit updated briefs to the commission, which considered them in a special proceeding.

The group was unanimous in its approval of a measure to remove the license revocation rejected by the court and increase the fine instead.

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Del Mar will present its 10th fall racing session – dubbed the Bing Crosby Season to honor the track's iconic founder – starting on Friday, Nov. 10, and highlighted by a stakes schedule that features 15 major events over the course of its 13-day run.

Topping the list of black-type tests again will be a pair of Grade 1 grass features – the $300,000 Hollywood Derby at nine furlongs for 3-year-olds on Saturday, Dec. 2 and the $300,000 Matriarch Stakes for fillies and mares run at a mile on closing day, Sunday, Dec. 3.

Also on the agenda are twin Grade 2 turf offerings for 3-year-olds and up – the $200,000 Hollywood Turf Cup at the marathon distance of 12 furlongs on Friday, Nov. 24 and the $200,000 Seabiscuit Handicap at a mile and one-sixteenth on Saturday, Nov. 25.

All told, the stakes roster carries gross purses of $2,050,000. Of the 15 events, 10 will be contested on the popular Jimmy Durante Turf Course, with nine of them overall providing Graded value.

Harkening back to its show business founder, the stand features a Hollywood theme for most of its stakes races, among them the Betty Grable, the Desi Arnaz, the Cary Grant, the Bob Hope, the Jimmy Durante and the Cecil B. DeMille, all of whom were part of the glamorous early days at the seaside oval.

“Our fall meet offers some excellent racing,” said Del Mar vice president and racing secretary David Jerkens. “Coming on the heels of the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita, it is well positioned to continue a positive racing flow in Southern California. Our Turf Festival – starting on Thanksgiving Day and following through to our close – offers eight grass stakes and has attracted marquee horses from across the country in the past and we're expecting more of the same this year.”

The session will kick off with an overnight event – the $75,000 Let It Ride Stakes — at a mile on the turf for 3-year-olds and up on November 10.

There will be a stakes doubleheader on Saturday, Nov. 18 with the running of the $100,000 Desi Arnaz Stakes for 2-year-old fillies and the $100,000 Cary Grant Stakes for Cal-bred 3-year-olds and up. Both of those events are at seven furlongs on the main track.

Further, there will be a stakes tripleheader on Saturday, Dec. 2 with the presentation of the rich Hollywood Derby, the $100,000, Grade 3 Jimmy Durante Stakes for 2-year-old fillies and the $100,000 Stormy Liberal Stakes for older horses at five furlongs on the turf.

First post daily throughout the stand will be at 12:30 p.m. with the exception of the November 23 Thanksgiving card when racing begins at 11 a.m., allowing fans time to enjoy a day of sport and still be home in time for turkey and all the trimmings that afternoon.

The complete list of stakes follows:

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Jockey Nik Juarez was taken into police custody in Oceanport, N.J., on Sept. 30, according to records with the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office.

Juarez, 30, is being held on charges of simple assault: purposely/knowingly causing bodily injury. Juarez was previously arrested for simple assault by Oceanport police on Aug. 16, 2022. Charges in that case apparently were dismissed.

It is not known who the alleged victim is.

His agent, Jimmy Riccio, said Juarez and his wife, Melissa, had returned to the United States from her native Sweden shortly before the jockey was taken into custody Sept. 30. The couple has two children.

Riccio said he has not heard from Juarez since the arrest. He said he does not have any details on why Juarez is being held.

A winner of 978 races from 6,637 mounts, Juarez last rode at the Monmouth-at-Meadowlands all-turf meet Sept. 16 when he won with two of his four mounts. He was scheduled to ride in Monday's 10th race at Parx Racing aboard Gabagool, but the horse was scratched. Juarez is named on three mounts Wednesday at Delaware Park.

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