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Storming Home heads a list of 45 American nominees to the four Group 1 races that will be run on Hong Kong International Day at Sha Tin on Dec. 14. Winner of both the Whittingham Handicap and the Clement Hirsch, he has been entered in both the $2.3 million Hong Kong Cup and the $1.8 million Hong Kong Vase. . . . The Jockey Club of Canada has announced that this year's deadline for submissions to four media categories of Sovereign Awards - feature story, newspaper article, film/video/broadcast, and photograph - will be Friday, Oct. 31. Submissions must be of Canadian Thoroughbred racing or breeding content and have been published or aired between Nov. 1, 2002, and Oct. 31, 2003. . . . The Connecticut Gaming Policy Board has approved a plan by Scientific Games Corp. to broadcast raw feeds of horse racing signals on cable television in the state. Scientific Games Corp. is the parent company of Autotote Enterprises, a division of the bet-processing company that runs offtrack betting operations in the state.