ELMONT, N.Y. - Bobby Frankel has changed plans for two of his key male horses, providing a mixture of good news and bad news for his New York colleagues who have horses pointing to this weekend's holiday stakes program at Belmont Park.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Declining an invitation to run in Saturday's $750,000 American Oaks at Hollywood Park, trainer Todd Pletcher has found a much easier spot to get Ocean Drive's summer campaign started.

Ocean Drive, a winner of four of five career starts, seeks her fourth stakes victory in Wednesday's $65,000 Gaviola Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park. She will face seven rivals in the 1 1/16-mile race, scheduled for the Widener turf course.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - For the second consecutive Wednesday, the racing week at Hollywood Park begins with a pick-six carryover. Wednesday's carryover is $185,118.

Wednesday's pick six covers the third through eighth races. Most of the races have clearly defined contenders, though the fourth race, for maiden claimers, is wide open.

CHICAGO - Beret wears the mantle of the next stakes horse for trainer Harvey Vanier. One more win, in Arlington's featured eighth race Wednesday, and Beret might earn a start in the Modesty Handicap here later this month.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Krz Ruckus will try to win the seven-furlong Overskate Stakes for the third straight year Wednesday at Woodbine.

Krz Ruckus dueled up front in his customary style to take the last two runnings of the Overskate with determination, and will have to run his "A" race again to beat a strong field. He was sharp in winning his season opener, the five-furlong Briartic Handicap, but then ran a rare clunker in the Grade 3 Vigil Handicap.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - While short on experience, Missy's Joy offers the greatest upside potential among those in Wednesday's $37,000 allowance feature.

Missy's Joy has made only four career starts and faces rivals who have been to the post as many as 24 times. It could be a triumph of youth - Missy's Joy is one of two 3-year-olds in the field - over experience.

Missy's Joy flashed early speed in her last start, a fourth-place finish in a muddy Monmouth allowance race on June 5. Trupon On, the winner, went on to run second in the Crank It Up Stakes June 21

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Lone Star Park has carded two entry-level allowance races for fillies Wednesday night, and in both races trainer Steve Asmussen holds a strong hand. In the featured eighth race, he will saddle probable odds-on favorite Lawyer Lauren, and his starters in the fourth are leading contenders Editors Shake and Miss Quick City.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Officials with several California racetracks and members of the starting-gate crew are continuing negotiations this week to resolve a salary dispute that threatens to result in a mid-July strike.

CHICAGO - They were not crying for him on the Arlington backstretch. More like looking on with curiosity ranging from morbid to rabid. How long would trainer Wayne Catalano's losing streak last?

No longer than Saturday, it turned out. Catalano, whose runners dominated the early portion of this meet, snapped a streak of 25 straight losers when Entrepreneurship won on Saturday's program. The hole in the dike having been opened, Catalano flooded Sunday's card with three winners. The last of them, an Argentine import named Ajedrez, looks like a horse of stakes quality.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Owner Jerry Edelist has been in the racing game, on a small scale, for the majority of the past 30 years.

But until Dressed for Action emerged a nose winner here in Sunday's $166,500 Ontario Damsel, Edelist had yet to experience the thrill of owning a stakes winner.

"It's a great feeling," said Edelist, who races as Shoestring Stable and had watched Dressed for Action defeat eight other Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies in the 6 1/2-furlong turf race.