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Brad Smythe, Canada's Sovereign Award-winning apprentice jockey in 1977, died at his home in Calgary, Alberta last Friday following a two-year battle with cancer. He was 48. . . . Norman A. "Bootie" Johnson, a longtime trainer based in Maryland, died Jan. 11. He was 64. . . . Youbet.com Inc., has contributed $100,000 to the University of Arizona's Race Track Industry Program to help endow a proposed faculty chair for industry business research and the program's masters degree program. The donation is the first for the endowment. . . . Beulah Park canceled its nine-race program Wednesday because of adverse track conditions caused by rain in the central Ohio area. Racing was scheduled to resume Friday. . . . Churchill Downs Inc. has appointed Tim Scott as its senior vice president of sales and marketing. Scott most recently was senior vice president of marketing for AMF Bowling Worldwide Inc.