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The Jockey Club has projected a 2009 North American registered foal crop of 35,400, which would be a decline of 3.3 percent from the estimated 2008 Thoroughbred foal crop of 36,600. The estimate for 2008's crop also has been revised downward, by 900 foals, from an earlier Jockey Club figure of 37,500. . . . Jockey Juan M. Gutierrez won his 1,000th race on Saturday when he rode Delegocho ($18.20) to victory in the fourth race at Emerald Downs. . . . Mistura Beauty, a cosmetics firm based in Ottawa, Ontario, has signed Woodbine-based jockey Chantal Sutherland as its spokeswoman for a new product line debuting in September. Sutherland, 32, has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Vogue, and People magazines.