All wagers placed on the pick four Saturday that combined two races from Yonkers and two from Belmont Park were refunded, but those who had the winning combination still got paid.

According to David O’Rourke, the chief revenue officer for the New York Racing Association, the bet processing company AmTote did not stop wagering when the first leg of the bet, the Harry Harvey Trot, went off. The stop betting button was finally hit at some point during the running of that race, according to Will Alempijevic, NYRA’s director of business development.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A storm that brought rain, along with thunder and lightning, stretching from San Diego to Los Angeles forced the closure of the main track at Santa Anita on Saturday morning, a day when a number of horses preparing for the Breeders' Cup, including Classic contenders Accelerate and West Coast, were scheduled to have workouts.

With the main track closed, training was confined to the training track, and only a handful of horses were scheduled to work on it.

The main track was sealed in advance of the afternoon's races.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Carrick, the Grade 1 Secretariat winner who finished a well-beaten sixth in the Grade 1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, will be pointed to the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar on Dec. 1, trainer Tom Morley said.

Morley said the soft turf at Belmont Park for the Joe Hirsch compromised Carrick, a 3-year-old colt.

“I could tell after 10 strides we were in trouble,” Morley said.

Morley said Carrick came out of the race “absolutely fine” and that after the Hollywood Derby, Carrick would be put away and target a 4-year-old campaign.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Forty Under, winner of the Pilgrim Stakes, worked a half-mile in 48.57 seconds Friday morning over the Oklahoma dirt training track at Saratoga in preparation for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf. The track, which had some moisture in it, was labeled “good.”

Trainer Jeremiah Englehart put Forty Under in company with Prince of New York, a maiden New York-bred, and said he got the desired result from both horses.

“I was really happy with him today,” Englehart said of Forty Under. “He showed more energy than in his works in the past.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Abel Tasman at her best wins the Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Abel Tasman when she doesn’t show up won’t come close.

The bad Abel Tasman was on display in the Zenyatta last time out, when she finished a dull fifth of six as the 1-10 favorite, but she looked like her old self on Friday morning at Santa Anita when working in company with stablemate Vale Dori, both ticketed to the Distaff at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Pavel owns a win over the Churchill Downs track in the Stephen Foster, an angle that makes him a live runner Nov. 3 in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, for which he worked six furlongs in 1:14.80 on Friday morning at Santa Anita under his regular rider Mario Gutierrez.

Pavel worked in company with B Squared, who is under consideration for one of four Breeders’ Cup races – the Mile, Dirt Mile, Sprint, and Turf Sprint. He, too, went in 1:14.80, with Evin Roman up, and stayed in front of Pavel throughout.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Victor Espinoza is still hoping to return to riding, and now has targeted the beginning of the Santa Anita winter meeting on Dec. 26 for his comeback, his agent, Brian Beach, said Friday morning.

Espinoza has been out of action since early in the Del Mar meeting, when he was seriously injured in a training accident when the sprinter Bobby Abu Dhabi died. Beach said Espinoza was desirous of returning by the end of October, but doctors want him to wait.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Mind Your Biscuits had his first breeze since a 4 3/4-length victory in the Sept. 29 Lukas Classic at Churchill before dawn Friday, going five furlongs in 1:00.40 over a fast Churchill track with Tyler Gaffalione up.

Trainer Chad Summers said afterward a decision could be imminent on which Nov. 3 Breeders’ Cup race – the Classic, Dirt Mile, or Sprint – will be chosen for Mind Your Biscuits, whose $4.28 million bankroll is the highest all-time for a New York-bred.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Angel Montano didn’t make the trip Thursday to Keeneland to saddle Dapper Sam, the latest winner in his remarkable training career. Montano recently turned 78 and has trouble getting around, owing to a bum hip and other maladies, so he watched on TV from his Louisville condominium.

Diversify, the Grade 1 Whitney winner who finished fifth in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, will not run in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, owner Ralph Evans said Thursday night.

Evans said a number of factors went into the decision including the health of trainer Rick Violette, who has been hospitalized for the past few weeks with an illness, Diversify’s poor performance in the Gold Cup and the horse’s previous poor experience at Churchill Downs.