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Sport
Hamilton
Going: good to soft (good in places)
1.30 (5f 7yd) 1, Burj Malinka (Connor Murtagh,
7-4 fav); 2, Morty (2-1); 3, Shesadabber (9-1).
7 ran. ns, 2Kl. Adrian Nicholls.
2.05 (1m 5f 16yd) 1, Forza Orta (Rowan Scott,
6-4 fav); 2, Tribal Art (9-2); 3, Heights Of
Abraham (7-1). 9 ran. Ol, 2l. K A Ryan.
2.35 (5f 7yd) 1, Mitbaahy (B A Curtis, 15-8);
2, Edward Cornelius (5-1); 3, Gis A Sub (Evens
fav). 4 ran. 1Kl, 1Kl. R Varian.
3.10 (1m 3f 15yd) 1, Detective (Kevin Stott,
10-3); 2, Goodwood Glen (8-11 fav);
3, Simple Star (12-1). 7 ran. Nk, 1Ol. Mrs Dianne
Sayer.
3.47 (1m 68yd) 1, Heights Of Aran (J P Sullivan,
11-2); 2, Shivraj (10-3); 3, Ba Na Hills (5-2 fav).
8 ran. ns, 1Ol. K Dalgleish.
4.21 (1m 68yd) 1, Cubana Habana (P Hanagan,
3-1); 2, Mahanakhon (7-4 fav); 3, Manaslu
(2-1). 6 ran. 2Kl, 3N. R A Fahey.
4.56 (6f 6yd) 1, Kats Bob (A Mullen, 9-2);
2, Kilconquhar (16-1); 3, Twice Adaay (10-1).
9 ran. Nk, nk. I Jardine.
Placepot: £5.50.
Quadpot: £3.80.Newmarket
Going: good to firm (good in places)
1.15 (5f) 1, Miami Girl (Rossa Ryan, 5-1);
2, Beautiful Sunrise (16-5); 3, Syndicated
(10-11 fav). 6 ran. 5Kl, Ol. R Hannon.
1.50 (1m 6f) 1, Cemhaan (Hollie Doyle,
10-3 fav); 2, Revolver (9-1); 3, Soapy Stevens
(7-1). 9 ran. NR: Blow Your Horn. 2Kl, Ol.
George Baker.
2.25 (1m 2f) 1, With The Moonlight (W Buick,
3-1); 2, Mashaaer (50-1); 3, Crenelle (6-5 fav).
7 ran. 4Ol, 5l. C Appleby.
3.00 (1m 1f) 1, Dreamloper (K Shoemark, 4-1);2, Ville De Grace (85-40); 3, Ebaiyra (15-8 fav).
6 ran. NR: Auria. Ns, sh hd. E Walker.
3.40 (1m) 1, Cachet (James Doyle, 16-1);
2, Prosperous Voyage (33-1); 3, Tuesday (4-1).
13 ran. NR: Mise En Scene. Nk, 1Ol. G Boughey.
4.15 (1m 2f) 1, Desert Angel (R L Moore, 3-1);
2, Cliffs Of Fury (9-1); 3, Thunder Max
(11-4 fav). 6 ran. NR: Sanitiser, Stormy Ocean.
4l, 2l. R Hannon.
4.50 (7f) 1, Haymaker (Tom Marquand,
10-3 fav); 2, North Lincoln (11-2); 3, Dashing
Rat (33-1). 10 ran. Ol, 1Nl. H Morrison.
Placepot: £644.20.
Quadpot: £84.50.Salisbury
Going: good to firm
2.10 (6f 213yd) 1, Luna Magic (Ms B Hampson,
3-1 fav); 2, Pope Gregory (8-1); 3, Fieldsman
(13-2). 14 ran. NR: Haraz. Hd, 4l. A Watson.
2.40 (1m 6f 44yd) 1, Spirit Mixer (Callum
Hutchinson, 11-4); 2, Oman (4-6 fav); 3,
Zoffee (7-1). 4 ran. Nk, 3N. A M Balding.
3.17 (5f) 1, Katey Kontent (L P Keniry, 7-2);
2, Baccarat Baby (10-3 fav); 3, Angelic Divas
(8-1). 9 ran. Ol, sh hd. C G Cox.
3.52 (6f 213yd) 1, Windseeker (P J Dobbs, 13-2);2, Bling On The Music (9-2); 3, Jimi Hendrix
(Evens fav). 6 ran. Kl, nk. R Hannon.
4.27 (1m 1f 201yd) 1, Box To Box (R Coakley,
9-4 jt-fav); 2, Yarralumla (11-4); 3, Postmark
(9-4 jt-fav). 4 ran. NR: Brayden Star, Le Forban.
1l, Kl. H Palmer.
5.02 (1m 4f 5yd) 1, Chairman (S M Levey,
7-4 fav); 2, Valsad (11-2); 3, Ring Fenced (11-4).
4 ran. Nk, 4l. M Meade.
5.35 (6f 213yd) 1, River Pride (P J Dobbs, 13-2);
2, Rousay (4-1); 3, Rock Melody (Evens fav). 5
ran. NR: Queen Aminatu. 2Nl, 1Nl. R Hannon.
Placepot: £260.80.
Quadpot: £45.30.Yesterday’s racing results
LV= County Championship scoreboards
Division One
Essex v Northamptonshire
Chelmsford (final day of four):
Northamptonshire (13pts) drew with
Essex (10)
Northamptonshire: First Innings 390 (L A
Procter 113; G K Berg 75; W A Young 63)
Essex: First Innings 193 (S Snater 79 not out;
B W Sanderson 4 for 32.)
Second Innings (overnight 149-3)
P I Walter b Zaib 93
M J J Critchley c Berg b Taylor 47
F I N Khushi c McManus b Taylor 30
†A J A Wheater not out 33
S R Harmer c Vasconcelos b Keogh 13
S Snater c Zaib b Keogh 16
M T Steketee b Keogh 8
S J Cook not out 0
Extras (b 18, lb 9, w 4, nb 10) 41
Total (9 wkts, 145 overs) 328
Fall of wickets 1-41, 2-56, 3-58, 4-158, 5-227,
6-264, 7-284, 8-304, 9-322.
Bowling Sanderson 22-7-40-0; Berg
20-5-52-0; Taylor 24-8-62-3; Procter 17-8-34-1;
Kelly 22-6-48-0; Keogh 33-17-51-4; Zaib 7-3-14-1.
Umpires N J Llong and T Lungley
Gloucestershire v Surrey
Bristol (final day of four; no play due to rain):
Gloucestershire (15) drew with Surrey (11)
Surrey: First Innings 603 (J L Smith 234 not
out; J Clark 137; O J D Pope 84; S M Curran 64)
Gloucestershire: First Innings 443 (C D J
Dent 207 not out; M S Harris 124; M A H
Hammond 75 not out)
Umpires M H A Syed and M Burns
Hampshire v Lancashire
The Ageas Bowl (final day of four; no play
due to rain): Hampshire (12) drew with
Lancashire (12)
Hampshire: First Innings 246 (N R T Gubbins
101 not out; J K Fuller 55; H Ali 5 for 45)
Second Innings 344 (N R T Gubbins 130;
B C Brown 72)
Lancashire: First Innings 240 (T E Bailey 59;
P D Salt 55; K H D Barker 5 for 67)
Second Innings 9
Umpires N G B Cook and R White
Somerset v Warwickshire
Taunton (third day of four; match finished on
Saturday): Somerset (23) beat Warwickshire
(2) by an innings and 82 runs
Somerset: First Innings 458 (M T Renshaw
129; T B Abell 70; T Banton 57; T A Lammonby
56; O J Hannon-Dalby 5 for 89)
Warwickshire: First Innings 209 (S Hain 54)
Second Innings 167
Umpires A Wharf and R Bailey
Yorkshire v Kent
Emerald Headingley (final day of four):
Yorkshire (16) drew with Kent (11)
Kent: First Innings 291 (D J Bell-Drummond
109; J M Cox 68; O G Robinson 58; H Rauf 5 for
65)
Second Innings (overnight 118-2)
B G Compton c Lyth b Hill 93
*J A Leaning c Duke b Patterson 36
J M Cox b Thompson 21
†O G Robinson not out 85
G F Linde lbw b Hill 16
G Stewart run out 90
M E Milnes lbw b Patterson 1N N Gilchrist c Revis b Patterson 0
M R Quinn c Revis b Patterson 4
Extras (b 13, lb 14, nb 8, p 5) 40
Total (122.3 overs) 393
Fall of wickets 1-18, 2-27, 3-126, 4-166, 5-182,
6-218, 7-384, 8-389, 9-389.
Bowling Thompson 26-7-77-1; Patterson
29.3-11-54-5; Revis 22-4-93-1; Bess 24-8-59-0;
Malan 3-1-12-0; Hill 14-2-51-2; Brook 4-0-15-0.
Yorkshire: First Innings 571 (H C Brook 194;
D J Malan 152; D M Bess 89; M L Revis 50)
Umpires S J O’Shaughnessy and G D Lloyd
P WL D Bat Bwl Pts
Surrey 4 2 0 2 12 7 67
Hampshire 4 2 1 1 11 10 61
Lancashire 32 0 1 9 9 58
Yorkshire 3 10 2 10 9 51
Essex 41 1 2 3 8 43
North’tonshire30 0 3 59 38
Warwickshire 31 1 1 7 7 37
Somerset 4130 7 10 33
Gloucestershire40 2 2 98 33
Kent 4 0 2 2 10 5 31
Division Two
Derbyshire v Glamorgan
Derby (final day of four): Derbyshire (14)
drew with Glamorgan (14)
Derbyshire: First Innings 368 (B D Guest 109;
W L Madsen 70; S M Khan 60; M G Neser 4 for
63; M G Hogan 4 for 55)
Second Innings (overnight 170-2)
†B D Guest c Cooke b Salter 138
W L Madsen not out 135
Extras (b 2, lb 2, nb 8) 12
Total (3 wkts dec, 89.1 overs) 349
Fall of wickets 1-60, 2-73, 3-349.Bowling Neser 13-3-40-0; Hogan 9-1-34-0;
van der Gugten 6.1-0-17-1; Salter 27.1-1-93-1;
Harris 10.5-0-59-1; Lloyd 13-2-56-0;
Labuschagne 10-0-46-0.
Glamorgan: First Innings 387 (M
Labuschagne 130; D L Lloyd 84; R A S Lakmal
5 for 82)
Second Innings
*D L Lloyd lbw b Sidebottom 49
A G Salter c du Plooy b Lakmal 0
M Labuschagne c Khan b Sidebottom 85
S A Northeast c du Plooy b Sidebottom 81
K S Carlson c Guest b Lakmal 37
†C B Cooke c Madsen b Dal 32
M G Neser c McKiernan b Dal 10
T N Cullen b Sidebottom 1
J A R Harris not out 1
T van der Gugten not out 1
Extras (b 5, lb 3, w 1, nb 4) 13
Total (8 wkts, 54.5 overs) 310
Fall of wickets 1-1, 2-99, 3-160, 4-233, 5-282,
6-298, 7-299, 8-308.
Bowling Lakmal 14.5-3-65-2; Conners
12-0-97-0; Sidebottom 14-2-50-4; Dal 9-0-54-2;
Thomson 5-0-36-0.
Umpires P R Pollard and N Pratt
Middlesex v Leicestershire
Lord’s (third day of four; match finished on
Saturday): Middlesex (22) beat Leicestershire
(3) by ten wickets
Leicestershire: First Innings 149
Second Innings 272 (B Mike 99 not out)
Middlesex: First Innings 370 (M D Stoneman
108; J A Simpson 71; B W M Mike 4 for 15.)
Second Innings 52-0
Umpires D Millns and M NewellNottinghamshire v Worcestershire
Trent Bridge (third day of four; match
finished on Saturday): Notts (21) beat
Worcestershire (3) by five wickets
Worcestershire: First Innings 159 (D
Paterson 8 for 52)
Second Innings 339 (E Barnard 163 not out; B
Cox 55)
Nottinghamshire: First Innings 266 (H
Hameed 53; B M Duckett 50)
Second Innings 233-5 (B Duckett 78; J Clarke
61 not out)
Umpires N Bainton and P Hartley
Sussex v Durham
Hove (final day of four): Sussex (15) drew with
Durham (10)
Durham: First Innings 223 (L Trevaskis 88)
Second Innings
A Z Lees c Alsop b Crane 105
S R Dickson c Rizwan b Crane 186
K D Petersen not out 21
*S G Borthwick c Rizwan b Rawlins 12
D G Bedingham not out 15
Extras (b 11, lb 1, w 9, nb 4) 25
Total (3 wkts dec, 113 overs) 364
Fall of wickets 1-313, 2-314, 3-335.
Bowling Beard 19-4-55-0; Crocombe
15-3-51-0; Clark 7-1-18-0; Crane 33-4-110-2;
Rawlins 20-1-50-1; Haines 5-2-9-0; Burrows
11-0-53-0; Rizwan 2-0-5-0; Alsop 1-0-1-0.
Sussex: First Innings 538 (C A Pujara 203; M
Rizwan 79; T P Alsop 66; T J Haines 54; T G R
Clark 50; L Trevaskis 5 for 128)
Umpires B J Debenham and I D Blackwell
P WLD Bat Bwl Pts
Nottinghamshire 4 310 14 11 73
Derbyshire 4 1 0 3 14 11 65Middlesex 3 2 0 1 11 8 59
Glamorgan 4112 91051
Durham 401 3 10 8 42
Worcestershire 3111 7 940
Sussex 402 2 9 7 31
Leicestershire 402 2 4 929Other results
Rugby union
Gallagher Premiership
London Irish 42 Wasps 42
6 Pages 52-53
Snooker
Sheffield World Championship final
R O’Sullivan (Eng) leads J Trump (Eng) 12-5.
Frame scores (O’Sullivan first): 0-98 (72),
120-0 (120), 78-1 (68), 73-66 (Trump 52), 62-13,
105-4 (105), 0-98 (97), 50-79; evening: 36-100
(73), 117-7 (66, 50), 122-9 (118), 107-15 (97), 77-
0, 94-26 (87), 4-80 (80), 79-0 (60), 88-33 (88)
Tennis
Munich Open final: Men’s H Rune (Den) bt
B van de Zandschulp (Neth) 4-3 retired.
Estoril Open final: Men’s S Baez (Arg) bt
F Tiafoe (US) 6-3, 6-2.
Madrid Open: Women’s: second round E
Raducanu (GB) bt M Kostyuk 6-2, 6-1; S
Sorribes Tormo (Sp) bt N Osaka (Japan) 6-3,
6-1; B J Teichmann (Switz) bt L A Fernandez
(Can) 6-4, 6-4; A Kalinina (Ukr) bt G Muguruza
(Sp) 6-3, 6-0; D Kasatkina (Russ) bt M Sakkari
(Gr) 3-6, 6-3, 6-1. Men’s: first round J Draper
(GB) bt L Sonego (It) 6-4, 6-3; D Evans (GB) bt
F Delbonis (Arg) 6-3, 6-4;hand side,” Marteel said, so O’Sullivan
offered him his cue. That gesture found
favour with all. One may assume that
O’Sullivan was hamming it up for
the cameras; he has a film
crew following him at the
championship and wants
to emulate Senna, the
documentary about the
three-times Formula
One world champion.
But his gilded career
has been full of such inci-
dents, most of which will
not fit into the obituary.
Trump was inferior through-
out the day, especially in the even-
ing when all semblance of talent, belief
and fortune vanished, and he gazed into
his hand with head bowed during oneframe. O’Sullivan made breaks of 120
and 105 in the afternoon and stole one
frame by potting a re-spotted black off
three cushions. The first two
frames of the evening were
shared after re-racks before
Trump started missing by
miles — on one occasion,
even the cue ball itself —
which nourished his
opponent’s fluidity.
O’Sullivan chalked up
a 118 in the evening to
move one short of Hen-
dry’s record for most centu-
ries (16) in an edition of this
tournament, and Trump won only
one of the last eight frames. It would be
a stunning, unlikely reversal if he can
make this go the distance tonight.O’Sullivan
v Trump
World Championship final,
The Crucible
Today, 1pm and 7pm
TV: BBC2, Eurosport.Ronnie O’Sullivan went through the
card on the opening day of the world
snooker final: sublime potting in three
century breaks, levity that brought
laughter from the crowd, and a fallout
with the match official over an alleged
gesture. All that is left is for the six-
times champion to rip off his waistcoat
and bow tie to reveal a T-shirt that
reads: “Why always me?”
O’Sullivan leads Judd Trump 12-5
and will return this afternoon as the
favourite to win the six frames required
and equal Stephen Hendry’s record
haul of seven Crucible titles. As ever, he
mixed the sublime with the controver-
sial in an absorbing first day.
The early focus was on shots such as
O’Sullivan’s audacious three-
ball plant — the last of which
was feet away from the first two
— but that was overshadowed
by two arguments with Olivier
Marteel, the referee.
Leading 5-2, O’Sullivan had a
chance to take the frame, but
snookered himself when look-
ing for position on the yellow. He
walked to his seat and Marteel
followed, administering a formal
warning for the alleged gesture,
which was not seen in the live
coverage. O’Sullivan is already
under investigation over an alleged
lewd gesture in the first round. “You tell
me what you saw,” O’Sullivan, 46, said.
“You saw nothing, don’t start.”
Trump, the 2019 world champion,
waited for his crack at the yellow, which
he potted before sealing the frame, and
seemed frustrated by the intervention.
“You could have said it after the
game,” the 32-year-old said. “I had to
say something,” Marteel, 52, replied.
O’Sullivan did not shake the referee’s
hand at the end of the afternoon
session, but they were back on cursory
fist-bump terms by the evening.
“They’ve got hundreds of cameras
out there, you can check them all, slow
motion,”
O’Sulli-
van had
told Eurosport during the break. “I’m
not going to have any of it because I just
think [the referee is] trying to create
something.”
Marteel, a radiologist, is officiating in
his second world final. Pre-match press
had focused on his work as an A&E
nurse in his native Belgium during the
pandemic. He wears refereeing gloves
manufactured by the company that
supplies his country’s police, but may
not have expected to lay down the law
in such a fashion here. He and O’Sulli-
van had earlier quibbled for six minutes
over the positioning of a cue ball for an
attempted snooker escape.
“You can still flick the red on the left-Row can’t stop sublime O’Sullivan
Snooker
Elgan Alderman
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toldEur tdORahm relieved
after ending
wait for victory
Golf
The world No 2 Jon Rahm ended his
trophy drought in style with a wire-to-
wire victory in the inaugural Mexico
Open.
Rahm, who held a share of the lead
on day one and was two shots clear after
36 and 54 holes, shot a final round of 69
at Vidanta Vallarta to finish 17 under
par, a shot ahead of Tony Finau,
Brandon Wu and Kurt Kitayama.
Finau and Wu both shot 63 to set the
clubhouse target, but Rahm made a
crucial birdie on the par-five 14th and
parred the last four holes to secure the
win.
Rahm had not tasted victory since
claiming his maiden major title in last
year’s US Open, a barren run in which
he was replaced as world No 1 by Scottie
Scheffler, whose Masters triumph was
his fourth win in the space of 57 days.
A tie for 27th was the joint-worst per-
formance of Rahm’s career at Augusta
National after four straight top-tens,
but the 27-year-old Spaniard was still
made a strong favourite for the title at
the start of the week.
“I don’t really look at bets or anything
like that, I like to think every time I tee
it up I’m the favourite because I’m out
there to win and I’ve been playing pret-
ty good the last few years,” Rahm said.
“It was a pretty stressful weekend all
the way to the end. I didn’t think having
a par-five [18th] where a fade off the tee
was required I would be stressing this
much, but I got it done at the end.
“I let my frustrations out a few times
but I stayed positive and it showed in
my swings. It wasn’t my best putting
weekend but I stayed aggressive. I was
confident in what I was doing, I had
faith in every part of my game.”
The Spaniard Adri Arnaus, 27, beat
Oliver Bekker, of South Africa, on the
sixth play-off hole to win his first
DP World Tour title at the Catalunya
Championship.