THE New York Giants coach, Tom Coughlin, was forced to accept responsibility for a second bruising defeat in-a-row as the Giants’ NFL season continued to unravel on Sunday.

IT BEGAN as one of the worst NFL games anybody in the 80,000-strong crowd is likely to have seen, but ended with a thrilling finish and the possible emergence of a new star.

Antonius Pius’s waywardness and a troubled passage for Six Perfections cost the European team dear as Singletary hung on grimly to land a dramatic NetJets Breeders’ Cup Mile at Lone Star Park today.