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Australias golf aces need to conjure a miracle to contend for British Open glory despite Jason Days second-round heroics at Royal Troon.Day defied savage conditions to fire a brilliant one-under-par 70 - the only red number of the afternoon - to keep his hopes flickering.But the world No.1 will enter moving day a distant 11 shots behind halfway leader Phil Mickelson, with Australias closest challengers Adam Scott and Matt Jones both 10 adrift of the American.Day, though, isnt giving up the ghost after rediscovering his swing - and mojo - when a menacing squall that swept the Scottish links course threatened to wipe him out of the Open.We totally expected to have conditions that were going to be difficult, but not to the point where it was blowing 30 to 40 miles an hour with winds and rain coming in sideways, Day said.I think I went through four gloves during that little time span, and it was coming down pretty heavy on me.My weather gear is totally soaked now and Ive got to somehow dry it out before tomorrow.Day held firm in the worst of the weather after four birdies in five holes on the front nine revived his flagging fortunes.Obviously Ive got to go into the next couple days with a positive attitude regardless how the weather is, because its going to be hard on everyone, Day said.Its going to be hard to win a major tournament. Mickelson has been playing some tremendous golf over the last two days, but you just never know whats going to happen in major tournaments.Ive just got to keep trying to push forward and trying to get myself back into contention somehow.Scott was the only Australian to land on the right side of the Open draw, but failed to take advantage in a disappointing second-round 73, the same score as Jones shot playing in the worst of it late afternoon.Leishman carded a classy 69 after teeing off just before midday to be one over for the championship along with Greg Chalmers (71).Scott Hend (73) got it to four under at one point on Friday before finishing at two over after being caught up in what Day described as the worst storm hed ever encountered on a golf course.It felt like the rain was coming up underneath the umbrella, Day said.That was pretty atrocious.Marcus Fraser and Rod Pampling - who bogeyed the last - were both devastated to miss the four-over cut by a shot after each notching second-round 75s.Nathan Holman was also left shattered after the infamous Postage Stamp par-3 eighth killed his chance of making the half-way cut on his major debut.Holman, 25, racked up a triple bogey and, despite gallantly making birdie on the last in darkness, fell two shots short of a weekend tee time.Nick Cullen, at eight over, and Steve Bowditch, at 15 over, also crashed out. 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Churchill Downs will award a Japanese horse an automatic berth in next years Kentucky Derby under a new program assigning points to participants in two Japanese stakes races, the track announced on Monday.The two one-mile dirt races at Tokyo Racecourse will be the Cattleya Sho for 2-year-olds on Nov. 26 and the Hyacinth for 3-year-olds, expected to be run early in 2017, according to a release from Churchill and the Japan Racing Association.The two-race series is structured along the lines of a points system Churchill implemented in 2013 to designate starters in the Kentucky Derby, which is the most prestigious race in North America. Under Churchills system, the top 20 points earners in a series of 2-year-old and 3-year-old stakes races are allowed to start in the Derby, provided the horses were nominated to the Triple Crown.The new Japanese series has the potential to reduce to 19 the number of Derby starting berths open to horses participating in the larger series. In a release, Churchill said the horse earning the most points in the two-race Japanese series will be offered an invitation to compete in the Derby, and if the invitation is accepted, one slot will be reserved for thhe Japanese horse.ddddddddddddThis year, Lani became only the second horse based in Japan to run in the Derby. Lani, who was bred in Kentucky, earned his spot in the Derby by winning the United Arab Emirates Derby, a Dubai race that is part of the points-based system established by Churchill for Derby qualifiers. Lani finished ninth in the Kentucky Derby under jockey Yutaka Take, who is enormously popular in Japan.The Kentucky Derby simulcast is not available in Japan, which strictly limits the number of foreign races that can be offered in the country for betting. Japans betting market is one of the largest in the world, however, and Churchill, like other U.S. companies, is eager to make inroads into the market.Also on Monday, Churchill said that the Grade 3 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs would replace the Grey Stakes at Woodbine in the 2016-17 points series for the 2017 Derby. The Sam F. Davis is a dirt race for 3-year-olds usually held in February, while the Grey Stakes is a race for 2-year-olds conducted over Woodbines artificial surface. ' ' '