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The King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, the centerpiece of Ascot's three-day July meeting, will be run next year at Newbury while a new grandstand is being built at Ascot. Next year's Royal Meeting at Ascot has already been rescheduled for York on June 14-18, but a venue has yet to be selected for Ascot's two-day September Festival. . . . WinTicket.com, the online wagering company, is holding a $50,000 Triple Trifecta promotion around the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on Sunday. Free for WinTicket account holders, the contest challenges players to select the first three finishers in three designated races from the Haskell card . . . . British trainer Alec Stewart died Wednesday at his home in Newmarket at age 49 after a long illness. Stewart's most prominent horse was Mtoto, the highweighted older horse on the International Classification in 1987. . . . John Nelson, whose daughter Kim is an activist in saving Thoroughbreds from slaughter and married to trainer Nick Zito, died Monday after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 61.