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NBC's one-hour broadcast of the Santa Anita Derby from 5 to 6 p.m. Eastern on Saturday registered a 1.6 overnight television rating and 4 share, according to Adam Freifeld, a spokesman for the network. The rating was up 60 percent over last year's 1.0. . . . MTR Gaming, the owner of Mountaineer Racetrack and Casino in West Virginia and Presque Isle Downs in Pennsylvania, lost $11.7 million in 2007, according to documents released by the company Friday. The company also announced that Ted Arneault, its chief executive officer for the past 13 years, would step down at the end of the year. . . . Jockey Christopher Zamora got his 1,000th victory Sunday aboard Dixie Bandjo ($3.80) in the seventh race at Sunland Park. . . . TJ's Lucky Moon, the 82-1 upset winner of the 2002 Queen's Plate, died on Saturday at the Ontario farm of his owner and breeder, Molinaro Stable. He was 9.