MIAMI - The Calder stewards have suspended trainer Julian Canet 60 days for "corrupt and fraudulent practices" and his assistant Jorge Navarro 30 days for "making false and misleading statements to the stewards." Stewards said they worked a horse under a fictitious name.

The suspensions were to take effect on Tuesday. Canet has appealed his ruling to Calder management and will have a hearing scheduled within the next week according to the track's general manger Randy Soth. Navarro did not appeal.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Trainer Dave Vance said Monday that he might nominate one or both of his star 3-year-old fillies Caressing and Unbridled Elaine for the Oct. 6 Arlington Matron, but that neither was likely to start.

Vance said he might nominate them to the $150,000 Matron "to keep my options open." Nominations for the Matron close Wednes-

day, and there is recent precedent for a 3-year-old filly beating elders in the race: Megans Bluff won the Matron last year after capturing the Arlington Oaks.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. - Live racing returned to northeastern Nebraska for the first time since 1997 Saturday when Horsemen's Atokad Downs presented a one-day meet of eight races that distributed more than $125,000 in purses.

The $15,000 purse for the first race was the richest race ever run at the track, and it was eclipsed by the $20,000 purse of the feature. Formerly known as Atokad Park, the track used to have a daily purse distribution of about $16,000 per day.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - A funny thing happened on the way to the Breeders' Cup Classic.

With the World Thoroughbred Championships to be held at Belmont Park this year, the New York fall championship races were supposed to be the proving grounds for big-name contenders, while races like the Meadowlands Cup were expected to attract longshots.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Strut the Stage had his final major tune-up for the Canadian International here Sunday morning, breezing six furlongs on a yielding E.P. Taylor course. Going in company with Sam-Son Farm stablemates Only to You and Quiet Resolve, Strut the Stage was given a 1:12.20 clocking compared to Only to You's 1:12.60 and Quiet Resolve's 1:12.

Trainer Mark Frostad said the work did not go as planned.

"[Only to You] was supposed to take two lengths," said Frostad, "and she started off four to five lengths ahead. But they all worked well."

ELMONT, N.Y. - Macho Uno, who was being pointed to Saturday's $300,000 Ohio Derby at Thistledown, was battling colic last Saturday night and his connections may wait a week to run him in the $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont on Oct. 6.

"He had a minor bout with colic on Saturday evening, he trained Sunday and Monday, and I'm waiting to breeze him," Orseno said Monday afternoon. "We're re-thinking our plans from Ohio to the Jockey Club Gold Cup, although we are looking into a flight instead of a 10-hour van ride to Ohio."

FLORENCE, Ky. - Before catching a flight Saturday to see his family in his native Ireland, trainer Niall O'Callaghan was noncommittal about what race will be next for Guided Tour, who again showed his grit when he ran down Balto Star to win the Kentucky Cup Classic.

POMONA, Calif. - Just Ruler, at 20-1 the longest shot in the $100,000 Ralph M. Hinds Pomona Invitational Handicap at Fairplex Park, won the premier race of the Los Angeles County Fair race meet to complete a dream week for trainer Doug O'Neill and jockey Felipe Martinez.

The $43.80 win by Just Ruler came just three days after O'Neill and Martinez upset the $50,000 Gateway to Glory Stakes with 2-year-old Rainman's Request ($63.80). O'Neill and Martinez combined for four wins in the 17-day fair meet that concluded Monday.

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. - Corona Kool, Quarter Horse racing's top female, spoiled the first meeting between the sport's last two horses of the year, Tailor Fit and A Ransom, in the $200,000 Los Alamitos Championship at Los Alamitos.

A 4-year-old, Corona Kool finished a head in front of A Ransom, the 2000 Horse of the Year who lost for the first time in eight starts. Stoli, a 3-year-old from New Mexico, finished third, with Tailor Fit seventh in the field of 10.

Nut N Better ($3.20) controlled the pace throughout and drew off to a three-length victory over Lady Tamworth in the $50,000 Central Iowa Stakes at Prairie Meadows.

Lady Tamworth rallied for second, 5 3/4 lengths clear of Livin for Love. The victory was Nut N Better's fourth in nine starts this year and her 13th in 24 career starts.