LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The defection of She Be Wild from the 136th Kentucky Oaks will allow Ailalea into the field for the April 30 race, which Churchill Downs officials say is attracting well more than the 14-filly limit.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The racing office could be scrambling up until entry time Wednesday to fill Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct.

As of Monday, the only confirmed starters for the Withers were Swale Stakes one-two finishers D' Funnybone and Ibboyee. The racing office was hoping to get trainer Gary Contessa to run the speedy New York-bred Castaneda, who has won three straight races at six furlongs including the Fred "Cappy" Capossela Stakes. The Withers is a one-turn mile.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Ron Ellis's stable starts the Hollywood Park spring-summer meeting in its best form of the year.

On Saturday at Santa Anita, Ellis won three races, including the Grade 3 San Simeon Handicap on the hillside turf course with Mr Gruff. At Hollywood Park, Mr Gruff will be pointed to the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile on turf on May 31, Ellis said.

Owned by Gary Broad, Mr Gruff has never run beyond about 6 1/2 furlongs on turf, but Ellis is not overly concerned.

"His mother won over 1 1/16 miles," he said.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Through Sunday, Rafael Bejarano was the nation's leading rider in purse earnings this year, with $4,247,968.

He was a comfortable winner of the riding title at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting that ended Sunday, recording 94 wins, 21 more than runner-up Joel Rosario. To reach that title, he won stakes aboard such prominent horses as Blind Luck, Bourbon Bay, and Tuscan Evening.

"I had a really good meeting," he said.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - Trainer Derek Ryan and Musket Man will be heading up the road to Louisville for the second straight spring to race on the first Saturday in May. Last year Musket Man finished third in the Kentucky Derby. This year he will be racing on the Derby Day program in the Grade 2, $250,000 Churchill Downs Handicap going seven furlongs.

Trainer Steve Specht will have to look south for Antares World's next start, with her options including the Grade 3 Railbird at seven furlongs on May 9 or the Grade 2 Honeymoon at 1 1/8 miles on the turf May 31. Both races are at Hollywood Park.

Antares World, who was odds-on, always looked a winner in Saturday's Golden Poppy here, defeating Bleach Blonde by three lengths in the one-mile turf race for 3-year-old fillies.

Leading apprentice rider Alex Gonzalez suffered a mild concussion and bruised left knee when his mount in the 10th race on Sunday, Dianne Do, crashed through the inner rail just after turning into the backstretch. Dianne Do was leading the one-mile turf race at the time. Precautionary X-rays proved negative, and Gonzalez hoped to return to riding Wednesday.

Dianne Do frolicked in the infield, even taking a dip in one of the infield pools before she was caught. She was apparently unscathed by the misadventure.

Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 San Francisco Mile will be a rematch of an April 2 allowance prep that Bold Chieftain won over comebacking Monterey Jazz.

The Mile will be on the turf, while the allowance race was at a mile over the Tapeta. Monterey Jazz is a Grade 2 winner on turf, but Bold Chieftain has done well on grass, too, having earned nearly $500,000 of his $1.4 million bankroll on the surface. Bold Chieftain is the only horse to have won the grassy California Dreamin' at Del Mar twice.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The task of attempting to shed a little light on the way the contenders are training up to the Kentucky Derby became a little easier this year after Churchill Downs decided to allow only Derby and Kentucky Oaks horses on the racetrack during a 15-minute window between 8:15 and 8:30 a.m., immediately after the renovation break. Horses are only allowed on the track during that period if they are wearing their personalized saddle towels.

Researcher achieved millionaire status and matched his career-best Beyer Speed Figure with a 108 for winning the for the second consecutive year last Saturday night. As a 6-year-old gelding, he can only continue to race. But his new owners intend to point him in a new direction.

The Kinross Corporation, owned by Zohar Ben-Dov, is best known in racing for its success on the steeplechase circuit. By this fall, Researcher could switch to jumping.