ARCADIA, Calif. - Go Between won the $1 million Classic in an upset Saturday, giving trainer Bill Mott his third victory of the day and helping Florida-bred horses defeat their California counterparts in the sixth annual Sunshine Millions.

After two consecutive days of washouts, it was sunny and windy at Santa Anita, allowing the event to go off despite a troublesome synthetic track that hasn’t drained or dried as it should since its installation last fall.

Ridden by Garrett Gomez, Florida-bred Go Between covered 1 1-8 miles in 1:45.64 at Santa Anita and paid $12, $6.60 and $4.60 at 5-1 odds.

Mott’s other victories were in the $500,000 Filly and Mare Turf with Quite a Bride at Santa Anita and the $500,000 Turf with War Monger at Florida’s Gulfstream Park.

Gomez rode Quite a Bride, giving him two wins, along with jockey Edgar Prado, who won the $300,000 Sprint and the Turf at Gulfstream.

Florida breds won seven of the eight races and outpointed California 58-14. Winners received five points each, second place was worth three points and third was worth one point. Florida has won the bi-coastal event all six years. Florida entered 55 runners to California’s 27 in the eight races.

In the Classic, Go Between won by two lengths over Celtic Dreaming, who returned $9.80 and $6.20. Seminole Native was another 6½ lengths back in third and paid $10.20 to show.

“My horse was traveling well and the pace was decent,” Gomez said. “When I swung him out around the turn, he really cut and went to running. The pace set up pretty much the way we thought it would.”

Defending champion McCann’s Mojave finished 10th in the 12-horse field.

Mott’s assistant, Leana Willaford, saddled his horses at Santa Anita, while he worked at Gulfstream. They stayed in touch using text messages.

“Coming all this way (from Florida), we thought he would handle this surface,” she said. “They were going so fast up front, and he closed well.”

Ginger Punch, winner of the Eclipse award for older female earlier in the week, overtook Peach Flambe entering the stretch to win the $500,000 Distaff by 6¾ lengths at Gulfstream.

Ridden by Rafael Bejarano, Ginger Punch covered 1 1-8 miles in 1:49.14 for Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel.

Racing at Santa Anita was canceled Thursday and Friday because of rain and hail, but Saturday was dry, with snow on parts of the San Gabriel Mountains above the track.

The track’s maintenance crew worked overnight to remove 2 inches of the wet top layer of Cushion Track and add some of the original synthetic material back on.

Jockey Mike Smith described the surface as firm and safe.

“The main thing is it is uniform and very even,” he said. “The crew did an unbelievable job getting this track ready.”

The forecast called for another storm to move in later Saturday and dump about 8 inches of rain in the hills outside Los Angeles. Track president Ron Charles said if that happened, it could force the cancellation of Sunday’s races and jeopardize the start of repairs to the Cushion Track.

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Santa Anita had already planned to close Monday and Thursday, in addition to its regular off days Tuesday and Wednesday, to mix a stabilizing binder into the synthetic surface that will allow rainwater to drain through the 7 inches of Cushion Track that lies atop a porous asphalt base.

At Santa Anita, Florida-bred Dearest Trickski led all the way in winning the $300,000 Filly and Mare Sprint by 4¼ lengths under Smith. She covered six furlongs in 1:07.66.

Florida-bred Quite a Bride defeated wagering favorite Nashoba’s Key by 1¼ lengths in the $500,000 Filly and Mare Turf. Quite a Bride covered 1 1-8 miles in 1:49.98.

Bob Black Jack was California’s lone winner, taking the $250,000 Dash by 3½ lengths over Winsome Charm. Ridden by David Flores, Bob Black Jack covered six furlongs in 1:06.53.

“I was always a neck in front,” Flores said. “But he likes to battle. He was just doing enough. I had to hit him a couple times and then he pulled away. That was very exciting, the way he did it.”

At Gulfstream, Florida-bred Benny the Bull won the $300,000 Sprint by 4½ lengths under Prado. American County, another Florida-bred ridden by Prado, earned a 1¼-length victory in the $250,000 Oaks. Florida-bred War Monger, trained by Mott and ridden by Kent Desormeaux, won the Turf by 1¼ lengths.