NETBALL: Loughborough Lightning still lead the Super League by a point despite slipping to a 75-71 defeat at second-placed defending champions London Pulse. 

Manchester Thunder are two points further back in third after they eased past bottom-of-the-table Birmingham Panthers 69-45 on Monday evening while the Dragons held on to beat Nottingham Forest 65-64 and London Mavericks edged to a 63-60 win at Leeds.

HORSE RACING: North Yorkshire-based trainer Tim Easterby and jockey David Allan enjoyed a 274/1 treble at Beverley races on Monday afternoon. 

After Lake Muritz had won the five-furlong fillies novices’ stakes, 12-year-old Copper Knight edged home by a head in his 118th race before Lyrical Song completed the three-timer. 

David Allan has now ridden 65 winners at a strike rate of 13 per cent to sit tenth in the jockeys’ championship.

MEN’S CRICKET: 2025 champions Nottingham moved top of County Championship Division One after cruising to a 10-wicket win over Leicester as last year’s runners-up Surrey climbed into second place with a comfortable eight-wicket win over Sussex. 

Bottom-of-the-table Hampshire suffered a heavy innings and 69-run defeat at home to Glamorgan and Joe Root took 4-49 as Somerset slumped to a 75-run loss against Yorkshire at Taunton.

SPEEDWAY: Northampton endured a sobering start to their debut Premiership campaign with a 53-37 defeat at Belle Vue on Monday lunchtime followed just six hours later by a thumping 57-33 loss at last year’s Grand Final runners-up Leicester. 

Richard Lawson bagged 14 points and Tom Brennan weighed in with 12+2 as reigning champions Ipswich led from the first tape to beat King’s Lynn 50-40 in the other bank holiday fixture.