The Golden Pick 6 ended the Golden Gate Fields meet with a whimper, not a bang Sunday when jockeys refused to ride on the turf course, forcing two races in the sequence to be switched from the turf to the main track.

Because the switch occurred after the sequence had started, the races were considered no-contests for the Golden Pick 6, and bettors were given all horses in both races. As a result, each winning ticket paid only $146.16 from the pool of $4,594,997. There were 31,438 winning tickets.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Bill Mott and his owners will have some decisions to make regarding the two horses he saddled to Grade 1 victories Saturday at Belmont Park.

Carina Mia won the Grade 1, $700,000 Acorn by 1 1/4 lengths, in the process upsetting Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia, who finished third. Off the Tracks was second.

The victory was the first Grade 1 success for Carina Mia and her fourth overall victory from six starts. She ran a mile in 1:34.97 and earned a 98 Beyer Speed Figure for the performance.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Chad Brown enjoyed a sensational Belmont Stakes Day, winning four races on the card, topped by the Grade 1, $1 million Manhattan with Flintshire.

Brown also won the Easy Goer Stakes with Economic Model, an allowance race with the 3-year-old Connect, and another allowance race with Fundamental. That win was somewhat bittersweet as it came as the result of the Brown-trained Inordinate being disqualified in a highly questionable decision by the stewards.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Steve Asmussen won his first Belmont Stakes on Saturday, and he kept wanting to relive the moment over and over Saturday night and into the wee hours of Sunday morning.

 “I woke up every 15 minutes to watch the replay,” Asmussen said at his Belmont Park barn Sunday morning.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Oftentimes trainers are at a loss for words to explain why their horses ran poorly. Sunday morning, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin was still trying to explain how Frosted ran so well in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Metropolitan Handicap.

In winning all seven of her starts, Songbird never had to take dirt. Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, aware that one afternoon Songbird might find herself behind horses, gave her a behind-horses education on Saturday morning at Santa Anita.

Songbird worked seven furlongs at 5:45 Pacific, breaking off five lengths behind her workmates, taking dirt, splitting her rivals, and rolling home in her final drill leading up to her comeback next Saturday in the Grade 2 Summertime Oaks.

The Golden Pick 6 at Golden Gate Fields is now only one day away from a mandatory payout after there wasn’t a unique winning ticket again Friday.

The jackpot-style 20-cent wager returned $1,349.94 to multiple tickets that had all six winners Friday. That means there will be $1,331,966.72 to start the pool Saturday. The pool pays out only when a single ticket picks all six winners.

Golden Gate Fields is hoping for a mega carryover for Sunday, when there is a mandatory payout for the pool. Saturday’s six races average 10.33 runners.

The world’s richest active Thoroughbred posted another solid workout Saturday morning at Los Alamitos as he prepares for a July 23 comeback at Del Mar.

California Chrome, whose earnings soared past $12 million when he won the $10 million Dubai World Cup in his most recent start March 26, worked five furlongs Saturday under exercise rider Dihigi Gladney.

Trainer Art Sherman was happy after the 5:30 a.m. drill. “He had a perfect workout,” Sherman said. “He looked great, galloped out strong. He was really moving down the lane; he went the last three-eighths in 35 and change.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Apprentice rider Jose Barnes was not seriously injured Thursday at Santa Anita after being unseated soon after the start of race 5. Barnes, 20, was riding Esmeralda Belle, who stumbled after the break of the claiming sprint and pitched Barnes to the ground.

“I went flying over, her front legs jumped over me, and I was clipped by her hind leg,” Barnes said by phone Friday morning.

ARCADIA, Calif. – It turns out that trainer Richard Mandella had a reason not to discuss the summer campaign for Beholder until after the Vanity Stakes on June 4. It was because Mandella seriously considered bringing Beholder back three weeks later for the Grade 1 Gold Cup on June 25 at Santa Anita, but he first wanted to see how she came out of the Vanity.