Trainer Bob Baffert and Justify’s owners said caution over the horse’s ankle condition made it impossible to tell if he’d be healthy enough to race by the fall.
Betting
The Meadowlands Racetrack in New Jersey took in nearly $3.5 million in sports bets during its first nine days of accepting such bets.
Organizers on Monday announced the 50-day poker extravaganza in Las Vegas drew 123,865 players this summer.
Though the calendar claims that summer started on June 21, horseplayers know the season doesn’t really begin until Del Mar and Saratoga open their doors. Now we can break out the sun lotion and get the party started!
Rickie Fowler has eight top-five finishes in majors, and at some point, he is going to have his major breakthrough.
Tiger Woods topped Phil Mickelson in each of the first two rounds of The Players Championship, where they played in the same group together in May, and has an 18-15-4 edge over Lefty when playing in the same group.
Tiger Woods is a minus 130 favorite over Phil Mickelson (+110) in a tournament matchup at the British Open.
Brent Musburger has agreed to a three-year deal to be the new radio play-by-play announcer for the Raiders starting this season, according to two sources familiar with the move.
But commissioner Rob Manfred said before MLB expands that stadium issues need to be settled in Oakland and Tampa Bay.
Based on wagers to make $100 on each game, Justin Verlander backers have lost $952 this season despite Houston going 12-9 in his starts.
The epic back-and-forth battle started at 6:45 p.m. Saturday and didn’t end until 4:50 a.m. Sunday, a little more than 10 hours and 199 hands after it started.
The lead changed hands nine times over the first three hours of a heads-up showdown between Tony Miles and John Cynn, who opened up a lead of more than a 2-to-1 margin before Miles closed the gap with an all-in bluff.
Miles, 32, will try to hold off poker pros John Cynn of Chicago and Michael Dyer of Houston on Saturday as the final three players will gun for the $8.8 million first prize of the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold ‘em World Championship at the Rio Convention Center.
Tony Miles, a 32-year-old Jacksonsville, Florida resident, continued his hot streak on Friday the 13th, knocking out 2009 Main Event champion Joe Cada and taking the lead from Michael Dyer in short order.
After starting play at 5:30 p.m. more than 3 million in chips behind Nic Manion in second place, Dyer opened up a lead of more than 100 million chips on Manion before settling for a lead of more than 84 million chips when play was halted at 10 p.m.
