Dance Smartly, a Breeders’ Cup winner in 1991, dies at 19

Liverpool’s Champions League game with Atletico Madrid and racing’s showpiece Cheltenham Festival “caused increased suffering and death” by going ahead in March, a leading scientist told the BBC on Tuesday. Professor Tim Spector, who leads the United Kingdom’s largest Covid-19 tracking project, said rates of cases locally “increased several-fold” following the events. Cheltenham attracted over 250,000 spectators to southwest England on March 10-13 and Liverpool played the Spanish side at Anfield on March 11 in front of a 52,000 crowd.

Justify drew the rail for the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, which could be a problem if he doesn’t surge to a quick lead.

One of the horses was trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, who has been banned from two racetracks. Eight horses have died under Hollendorfer’s care in the last 13 months.