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Sport in brief: April 26, 2026

MEN’S RUGBY UNION: Cape Town stuffed Glasgow 48-12 to replace them at the top of the United Rugby Championship with Johannesburg moving third after beating Connacht 33-21.

Leinster went down 29-26 to Jacob Umaga’s last-minute penalty in Treviso and slipped into fourth.

Cardiff edged the Ospreys 24-21, Munster thumped Ulster 41-14, Edinburgh squeezed past Durban 33-28, bottom club Zebre lost 18-19 to the Dragons and Pretoria won 23-21 in Llanelli.

HORSE RACING: Thistle Ask suffered a fractured shoulder when unseating his rider in Saturday’s Celebration Chase at Sandown Park and was euthanased at the course.

The nine-year-old gelding was leading the two-mile Group One race when he landed awkwardly at the seventh fence.

He had won almost £225,000 in prize money from 15 career runs and was part of this year’s champion National Hunt trainer Dan Skelton’s stable.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Already crowned Super League champions Sheffield let a 20-point lead slip in their 71-65 defeat at Oaklands on the final day of the regular season.

Tierra Hodges top-scored with 26 points as runners-up Caledonia eased to a 92-73 win in Newcastle.

Essex beat Manchester 85-72, London won 94-86 at Nottingham and bottom team Cardiff Met ended the campaign winless after narrowly missing out 70-66 against Leicester.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Andy Ryan and Matthew Lusty both scored hat-tricks as Larne thrashed Dungannon 8-0 to seal their third northern Irish Premiership title in four seasons.

Will Patching also bagged a treble as Coleraine crushed Glentoran 6-2 to grab the runners-up spot and a place in next year’s European Conference League first qualifying round.

Last season’s champions Linfield went down 2-1 at home to Cliftonville and finished fourth.
 

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