In Brief

Coil’s rally gives Baffert
fifth Haskell Invitational

Bob Baffert owns the Haskell Invitational.

The Hall of Fame trainer won the $1 million race a record fifth time when Coil unleashed a last-to-first rally and beat Preakness winner Shackleford by a neck at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., on Sunday.

The Haskell featured a matchup of Shackleford against Belmont Stakes winner Ruler On Ice, but it was Coil who played the role of spoiler. It wasn’t easy.

Breaking last out of the No. 1 post, Coil dropped way back in the field of eight 3-year-olds, and Baffert figured his colt had no chance to make up the lost ground.

He was wrong.

Jockey Martin Garcia didn’t panic, allowing Coil to settle and gather momentum as the field went into the final turn. Coil was still last rounding the turn but began picking off horses through the stretch, collared Shackleford for the lead and edged away in the final strides.

Ruler On Ice finished third in the 1 1/8-mile Haskell. The winning time was 1 minute ,48.20 seconds.

MISCELLANEOUS

Lochte, Phelps upstaged
by Chinese swimmer

The swimming world championships in Shanghai ended with a jolt when emerging Chinese star Sun Yang broke the oldest world record in the sport — Australian great Grant Hackett’s 10-year-old mark in the 1,500 meters.

Sun was more than two seconds off Hackett’s pace with four laps to go, but ignored fatigue and accelerated on the final two laps to finish in 14 minutes, 34.14 seconds, improving on Hackett’s mark of 14:34.56 set at the 2001 worlds in Fukuoka, Japan.

Meanwhile, American all-around star Ryan Lochte won the 400 individual medley for his fifth gold, beating teammate Tyler Clary by a massive four seconds.

Michael Phelps finished with four golds after pushing the Americans in front during the butterfly leg in the 4×100 medley relay. Nathan Adrian held off a late comeback attempt by Australia’s James Magnussen in the anchor leg.

The U.S. team won in 3:32.06. Lochte wasn’t included on the squad for the meet’s final relay.

Also: Las Vegas amateurs Michael Hunter and Brett Rather won quarterfinal matches at the U.S. Olympic Boxing Trials in Mobile, Ala.

Hunter, the 2008 Olympic trials champion at super heavyweight (201-plus pounds), decisioned fellow Las Vegan Andrew Tabiti in a heavyweight bout (201), 24-12.

The draw held Saturday pitted the two local fighters against each other in the opening round. Tabiti dropped into the challengers’ bracket.

Hunter advances to face USA Boxing Athlete of the Year Steve Geffrard, of Boca Raton, Fla., in the semifinals. Geffrard decisioned James Shorter of Elkhart, Ind., 24-22.

Rather, a former UNLV football player competing in super heavyweight, decisioned Jonathan Hamm of St. Paul, Minn., 18-18, winning 83-81 on total punch count.

He will face Andrew Shepherd of Fort Carson, Colo., in the semifinals. Shepherd decisioned O’Jayland Brown of Sacramento, Calif., 18-8.

Tiger Woods will play in the Australian Open in November in his first trip Down Under since his personal life unraveled right after a victory at Melbourne.

Golf Australia chief Stephen Pitt announced that Woods would join the field for the Nov. 10-13 Sydney tournament that already includes Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson and defending champion Geoff Ogilvy.

Versus will be renamed the NBC Sports Network early next year. The cable channel’s parent company, Comcast, took over NBC Universal in January, and NBC Sports’ production and programming have already been appearing on Versus.