Day: April 8, 2017

The Latest: Former world No. 1 Jason Day 1st off on Saturday (Sports Betting News)The Latest: Former world No. 1 Jason Day 1st off on Saturday (Sports Betting News)

April 8, 2017April 8, 2017| 16:08

Sergio Garcia, of Spain, reacts to a shot on the 15th hole during the second round of the Masters golf tournament Friday, April 7, 2017, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Former world No. 1 Jason Day has struggled at the Masters this week, shooting 74-76 the first two rounds and surviving to the weekend right at the cut line of 6-over par. The four leaders – Charley Hoffman, Sergio Garcia, Rickie Fowler and Thomas Peters – will tee off in about four hours on what looks like a great day for golf. Augusta National has a traffic jam atop the leaderboard heading into the third round of the Masters, a logjam that will likely take the entire weekend to untangle.

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Rare scenes as Sydney Cup stopped halfway through the race (Sports Betting News)Rare scenes as Sydney Cup stopped halfway through the race (Sports Betting News)

April 8, 2017April 8, 2017| 10:09

One of Australia’s biggest horse races – the Sydney Cup – was abandoned at the halfway point on Saturday in dramatic and controversial scenes after two horses threw their riders and one of the horses died on the track. The 3,200-meter (2-mile) Group 1 event, worth 2 million Australian dollars ($1.5 million), attracted a field of 14 Australian and international gallopers, and shaped as one of the highlights of the autumn racing season at Sydney’s Randwick racecourse. Not only was the seven-year-old’s English jockey James Doyle thrown from the saddle, the incident also caused rival horse Who Shotthebarman to unseat its jockey, Blake Shinn.

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