McCarron Doesn’t Ease Up : Hollywood Park: After winning the Kentucky Derby on Go For Gin, he returns to ride four winners in five races.

There was no post-Kentucky Derby letdown for Chris McCarron at Hollywood Park on Sunday.

Fresh from his upset victory aboard Go For Gin at Churchill Downs, McCarron won with four of his five mounts.

The only race that escaped him was the $107,800 Wilshire Handicap. He finished third on Miami Sands, beaten by 1 1/4 lengths by favored Skimble.

Racing on Lasix for the first time after bleeding in the Santa Anita Budweiser Breeders’ Cup Handicap three weeks earlier, Skimble, the 17-10 choice, ended a six-race losing streak in defeating 2-1 second choice Bel’s Starlet by three-quarters of a length in 1:41 1/5 for the 1 1/16 miles on turf.

“This field was a probably a little bit easier than the ones she had been running against,” trainer Bobby Frankel said. “The last time Eddie (Delahoussaye) rode her at Santa Anita, he told me she couldn’t handle that course at all.”

After sitting out the first two races, McCarron continued his big weekend with a victory on favored Just Tops in the third, then won at $33.60 with Hot Number in the fifth. He skimmed the rail to win with 8-5 choice Desperately in the sixth, then completed his day with a second consecutive success on Ravenwood.

“No, I’m not tired at all,” he said. “I feel good. The adrenaline is still flowing.”

Horse Racing Notes

The Wicked North worked six furlongs in 1:11 2/5 Sunday morning at Santa Anita and probably will run in the $150,000 Mervyn LeRoy Handicap on Sunday. Trainer David Bernstein originally was going to wait for the Californian on June 5, but decided to bring the Oaklawn Handicap winner back in the 1 1/16-mile LeRoy. . . . Chris McCarron now has ridden 5,979 winners.

Hollywood Park will simulcast the six-furlong match race between the filly Soviet Problem and the gelding Lazor on Thursday from Golden Gate Fields. The race carries a $33,000 winner-take-all purse and will be the first match race in the Bay Area since 1886. . . . Halloween Treat, who finished last in the Spotlight Breeders’ Cup Handicap on Saturday and appeared to have been injured when squeezed along the rail, was OK Sunday morning, according to trainer Dan Hendricks. . . . Jockey Corey Nakatani is a father for the third time. His wife, Michelle, the daughter of trainer Wally Dollase, gave birth to Austin, who weighed 8 pounds 8 ounces, on Saturday.