The win didn’t just bring points, it brought attention. Straka, previously considered a longshot, now stands as a real contender heading into the final stretch of the FedEx Cup Playoffs.

It might be cheaper, easier, and more efficient, too. That’s the pitch of Longshot Space, an Oakland-based company that’s constructing an enormous gun with the goal of shooting things into space.

His Wisconsin Boy romped home, paying $38 for $2. At Detroit, a longshot named Our Request ($23.60) galloped off with the Rose Leaves Stakes. In the Betsy Ross Stakes at Boston’s Suffolk Downs ...