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747 9 live casino The Las Vegas Grand Prix was a mixed bag for Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who finished fifth in Saturday night’s race on the Strip but clinched his fourth straight Formula One championship . The race was also a mixed bag for Las Vegas sportsbooks a year after they set record betting handles, or amount of money wagered, on the inaugural F1 race on the Strip. Station Sports and BetMGM again reported record handles for the F1 race as both sportsbooks shattered last year’s mark. “The handle was phenomenal,” Red Rock Resort sportsbook director Chuck Esposito said. “It was, by far, the largest F1 handle we had this year and easily surpassed the record handle we had last year on it.” BetMGM, which took the largest wager on last year’s race at $200,000 on Verstappen (who won as a -200 favorite), took twice as much money in bets on Saturday’s event. This year’s race was won in dominant fashion by pole winner George Russell of Mercedes, who closed as the +350 third favorite at Caesars Sportsbook. Betting was way down at the Westgate SuperBook, however. It wrote only 35 percent of what it handled last year, according to vice president of risk Ed Salmons. Caesars also saw a drop in the action. The book shattered its record handle on any auto race on the Las Vegas Grand Prix last year, when vice president of trading Craig Mucklow said it took well over $1 million in wagers. Mucklow said Caesars took in three times as much on the event as the Daytona 500, aka the Super Bowl of NASCAR. Verstappen was the odds-on favorite last year, but closed as the +550 fourth choice at Caesars this year before Saturday’s race. He was behind Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, the +220 favorite, Sainz’s teammate Charles Leclerc, the +275 second choice, and Russell. McLaren’s Lando Norris was the 9-1 fifth favorite, followed by Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, a 22-1 long shot who drove from 10th place to second to give his team a sweep of the top two spots. Russell started on the pole and led every lap. “The handle was not on par this year compared to last, primarily due to George Russell’s dominance, which affected in-play wagering on the event,” Mucklow said. “However, we did benefit from the race being more competitive this year compared to last year’s pre-race (odds).” Sainz and Leclerc finished third and fourth, respectively. Station won on the event, while the Westgate was a small loser overall. “Getting Russell to win was a really good outcome for us,” Esposito said. “That was one of the best cases for us. Outside of some long shots, we clearly did not want Leclerc, Verstappen, Hamilton or (Alpine’s Pierre) Gasly.” Esposito said the record handle was fueled by the city hosting the race for the second year in a row. “Any event that’s here always generates a huge handle,” Esposito said. “Vegas is becoming, if it’s not already, the sports capital of the world, and having a huge event like F1 here with all the hype that surrounds it, I think it will get bigger and bigger every year.”

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NASSAU, Bahamas — Scottie Scheffler brought a new putting grip to the Hero World Challenge and felt enough improvement to be satisfied with the result, a 5-under 67 that left him three shots behind Cameron Young on Thursday. Young was playing for the first time since the BMW Championship more than three months ago and found great success on and around the greens of Albany Golf Club, chipping beautifully and holing four birdie putts from 15 feet or longer for his 64. He led by two shots over Justin Thomas in his first competition since his daughter was born a few weeks ago. Thomas ran off four straight birdies late in his round and was a fraction of an inch away with a fifth. The big surprise was Scheffler, the No. 1 player in golf who looked as good as he has all year in compiling eight victories, including an Olympic gold medal. His iron play has no equal. His putting at times has kept him from winning more or winning bigger. He decided to try to a "saw" putting grip from about 20 feet or closer — the putter rests between his right thumb and his fingers, with his left index finger pointed down the shaft. People are also reading... "I'm always looking for ways to improve," Scheffler said. Scheffler last year began working with renowned putting instructor Phil Kenyon, and he says Kenyon mentioned the alternative putting grip back then. "But it was really our first time working together and it's something that's different than what I've done in the past," Scheffler said. "This year I had thought about it from time to time, and it was something that we had just said let's table that for the end of the season, take a look at it. "Figured this is a good week to try stuff." He opened with a wedge to 2 feet and he missed a 7-foot birdie putt on the par-5 third. But he holed a birdie from about the same distance at the next par 5, No. 6, and holed a sliding 6-footer on the ninth to save par. His longest putt was his last hole, from 12 feet for a closing birdie. "I really enjoyed the way it felt," he said. "I felt like I'm seeing some improvements in my stroke." Young, regarded as the best active player without a PGA Tour victory, is treating this holiday tournament as the start of a new season. He worked on getting stronger and got back to the basics in his powerful golf swing. And on this day, he was dialed in with his short game. He only struggled to save par twice and kept piling up birdies in his bogey-free round on an ideal day in the Bahamas. "The wind wasn't blowing much so it was relatively stress-free," Young said. Patrick Cantlay, along with Scheffler playing for the first time since the Presidents Cup, also was at 67 with Ludvig Aberg, Akshay Bhatia and Sahith Theegala. Thomas also took this occasion to do a little experimenting against a 20-man field. He has using a 46-inch driver at home — a little more than an inch longer than his regular driver — in a bid to gain more speed. On a day with little wind, on a golf course with some room off the tee, he decided to put it in play. "Just with it being a little bit longer, I just kind of have to get the club out in front of me and get on top of it a little bit more," Thomas said. "I drove the hell out of it on the back, so that was nice to try something different and have it go a little bit better on the back." Thomas said the longer driver gives him 2 or 3 mph in ball speed and 10 extra yards in the air. "It's very specific for courses, but gave it a try," he said. Conditions were easy enough that only four players in field failed to break par, with Jason Day bringing up the rear with a 75. Be the first to knowNone

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index lost more than 100 points Tuesday ahead of an expected interest rate cut Wednesday, while U.S. markets were also down. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 121.09 points at 25,504.33. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 154.10 points at 44,247.83. The S&P 500 index was down 17.94 points at 6,034.91, while the Nasdaq composite was down 49.45 points at 19,687.24. “Relative to the churn we have seen in the markets the last few days ... today being a little bit of a boring day would be fairly welcome for many investors,” said Stephen Duench, vice-president and portfolio manager for AGF Investments Inc. Wednesday is set to be more exciting, with an interest rate cut expected in Canada and important consumer inflation data coming in the U.S. “I do expect a little bit more fireworks tomorrow,” said Duench. The Bank of Canada is widely expected to announce an outsized cut Wednesday of half a percentage point, he said. “Anything other than that would be a surprise.” The U.S. Federal Reserve has its last decision of the year scheduled for next week, and market watchers are leaning toward a smaller quarter-percentage-point cut there, said Duench. It would be the third cut this year after the central bank hiked rates to a two-decade high to fight inflation. The inflation report will be the last significant data point before the central bank’s decision, Duench said. If the inflation report shows price growth is proving more stubborn than expected, that could change the Fed’s thinking on rates next week, he said. “Maybe that's part of the reason we've seen churn in the market the last few days in the U.S.” Beneath the surface, there was some movement in the tech sector, where Oracle sank 6.7 per cent after its latest earnings report missed expectations. Meanwhile, Google's stock price rose by more than five per cent. The company on Tuesday unveiled its new chip meant for quantum computing. Duench said after the advent of artificial technology led a rally earlier this year, quantum computing could be another frontier for investors to keep an eye on. The Canadian dollar traded for 70.59 cents US compared with 70.77 cents US on Monday. The January crude oil contract was up 12 cents at US$68.59 per barrel and the January natural gas contract was down two cents at US$3.16 per mmBTU. The February gold contract was up US$32.60 at US$2,718.40 an ounce and the March copper contract was down less than a penny at US$4.27 a pound. — With files from The Associated Press This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 10, 2024. Companies in this story: (TSX:GSPTSE, TSX:CADUSD) Rosa Saba, The Canadian Press