ELMONT, N.Y. – On a morning when California Chrome had a routine two-mile gallop, five of his would-be challengers for the June 7 Belmont Stakes put in timed workouts at Belmont over tracks that had finally dried out after several days of rain. Unfortunately, one of those horses was injured and will not make the race.

With $6 million in dead money waiting, expect another $12 million or so to join the pool in the must-pay Rainbow Six at Gulfstream Park. After takeout, approximately $15 million will be sent back through the cashier’s window. It’s basically a positive-expectation National Pick Six, where more money will be returned to bettors than they put in Monday.

Here are my whittled contenders as of Sunday morning:

5th race: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12

6th race: 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11

7th race: 8, 12, 13

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Gulfstream Park’s Rainbow Six jackpot survived again Saturday, leaving just one more card to go before the mandatory distribution of the entire pool Monday.

All six winners returned $2,419 for a 20-cent ticket Saturday, the winning combination covered multiple times by bettors who poured another $391,000 into the pool. The additional wagers swelled the existing jackpot to just under $6.4 million heading into Sunday’s program.

5th race

Skip’s World
May 18 – An even maintenance half-mile in 49 seconds, galloped out well. Rating: B-

Mon Petit Pote
May 20 – Finished nicely, final quarter of a 49.64-second half-mile on the main track in 23.84, out five-eighths in 1:02.66. Rating: B
May 13 – A fast five-eighths in 1:00 but under steady urging, drifted some through latter stages of work with no real gallop out. Rating: B-

ELMONT, N.Y. – Being based mostly in Southern California, California Chrome had rarely, if ever, seen a wet track. During his Triple Crown run, California Chrome has seen his share of them in Kentucky, Baltimore, and especially here in New York.

If you listen to his exercise rider, Willie Delgado, California Chrome didn’t appear to like it at Churchill Downs but floated over it at Pimlico. On Saturday, for the third straight morning, California Chrome galloped nearly two miles over a wet Belmont Park surface, and he seemed to handle it just fine.

Shared Belief, the Eclipse Award winner as 2013’s top 2-year-old, will make his 2014 debut Monday at Golden Gate Fields in a six-furlong allowance race against older horses.

Shared Belief won his debut at Golden Gate Fields last year and capped his season with a victory in the Grade 1 CashCall Futurity. Foot problems kept him off the Triple Crown trail.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said that he opted to run Shared Belief at Golden Gate Fields because that is where he has been training.

G.R. Carter set a new all-time record for Quarter Horse wins by a jockey on Friday, when he picked up No. 3,632 in the fifth race at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico. It was the second win on the card for the rider, who in the third race tied the mark of 3,631 that had been set by the now-retired Alvin Brossette.

Carter, 46, already ranks as Quarter Horse racing’s all-time leader in mount earnings, with more than $64 million.

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[bc_video_id:325138:]California Chrome hasn’t had too many things in his path this year as he’s rolled to victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, putting him one step away from a Triple Crown sweep going into the Belmont Stakes on June 7.

Sure, he had to outrun 18 horses in the Derby and nine rivals in the Preakness, but he handled both tasks with aplomb. Worries over a tiny throat blister before the Preakness and concerns as to whether he’d be permitted to use a nasal strip in the Belmont proved to be unfounded.

Mary Anne Barron has been named the racing secretary at Hazel Park Raceway in suburban Detroit for the track’s upcoming Thoroughbred meet.