BELLA BELLUCCI - Michael Tabor's Bella Bellucci was out for a "trot" early Monday morning and back in trainer Neil Drysdale's barn before it was full light. The daughter of French Deputy, who won the Comely Stakes (GIII) at Aqueduct in her last start, had her final serious Oaks (GI) drill last Saturday when she breezed seven furlongs in 1:30.40.

FARDA AMIGA - The daughter of Broad Brush, trained by Paulo Lobo, is scheduled to be flown to Kentucky Tuesday. Farda Amiga was fourth in the Santa Anita Oaks last out.

HABIBTI - The Thoroughbred Corporation's Habibti, winner of the Hollywood Starlet last year and second in both the Las Virgenes and Santa Anita Oaks (GI) this year, was out for a mile gallop Monday morning. Victor Espinoza will ride the daughter of Tabasco Cat in the Oaks.

ILE DE FRANCE - Trainer Richard Mandella said the daughter of Storm Cat, third behind You and Habibti in the Santa Anita Oaks in her last start, will arrive in Kentuckyon Tuesday aboard the same plane carrying Farda Amiga. Ile de France, owned by Stud TNT, was beaten a head by Farda Amiga in a turf event at Santa Anita in February, then was a nose better than that rival when they ran third and fourth in the Santa Anita Oaks at a mile and a sixteenth on the main track.

IMPERIAL GESTURE/TEMPERA - Godolphin Racing's 2001 Eclipse Award winning Tempera was euthanized Sunday night at the Hagyard-Davidson-McGee Veterinary Clininc in Lexington, Ky., after she developed colitis and laminitis.

"I found out late last night," said Tom Albertrani, assistant to trainer Saeed bin Suroor. "It is hard to believe, but her condition went so bad in 24 hours they couldn't do anything to help her."

Tempera had galloped here Thursday, but developed a fever Friday and walked the shedrow. She did not go to the track Saturday morning and was taken that afternoon to the clinic in Lexington. Albertrani had said Sunday that the filly was expected to return to the barn later Sunday.

"You don't see that that often," said Albertrani of the illness, "but she got really bad, and they couldn't save her."

It marked the third time in Godolphin's four springs of coming to Kentucky that something had happened to one of its runners.

In 1999, Aljabr was forced to scratch out of the Derby because of lameness the day before the race, and in 2001, Street Cry injured an ankle a week after arriving here and never made the race.

Imperial Gesture was on the track before the renovation break to visit the paddock and then gallop a mile and a quarter under Lee Roebuck.

The filly is scheduled to work five furlongs before the renovation break Tuesday with Roebuck up.

MS BROOKSKI/CHAMROUSSE - Gary Tanaka's Ms Brookski galloped once around the oval Monday morning with Jennifer Brown, assistant to trainer Niall O'Callaghan, aboard.

Winner of the Davona Dale Stakes at Gulfstream Park in February, when she was trained by Reed Combest, Ms Brookski will be making her first start for O'Callaghan in the Oaks.

"I'll blow her out later in the week," the trainer said. "I just haven't picked the day yet."

Arthur B. Hancock 3rd and James Stone's Chamrousse, who was under consideration for the Oaks, will not run at Churchill Downs.

"I won't start her until the Black-Eyed Susan at Pimlico," O'Callaghan said.

The Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan will be run on Friday, May 17, the day before the Preakness Stakes.

TAKE CHARGE LADY - Select Stable's four-time graded stakes winner Take Charge Lady jogged a mile and galloped a mile under exercise rider Helen Pitts before the renovation break.

Take Charge Lady has won six of eight races, with her only off-the-board finish coming in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies last October at Belmont Park behind Tempera.

"It is very sad. My heart goes out to Godolphin," said trainer Ken McPeek of Tempera, who was euthanized Sunday night because of laminitis. "It is very gut wrenching."

TAKE THE CAKE/BELTERRA - Elizabeth J. Valando's Take The Cake had her final drill for the Oaks Monday morning, breezing five furlongs in 1:01.60 and putting a smile on the face of trainer Carl Nafzger.

"She's ready," Nafzger said. "She came off the track looking great, just the way she's supposed to. It was a good solid work. I caught her galloping out in 1:13."

Exercise rider Tracey Wilkes was aboard the daughter of Fly So Free, who was caught in splits of :12.60, :25, :37.80 and :49.60.

Take The Cake, winner of the Forward Gal Stakes at Gulfstream in January, was third in the Ashland at Keeneland last out, her first start in seven weeks.

The trainer is still engaged in an internal debate over the starting status of Robert T. Manfuso's Belterra. The daughter of Unbridled underwent throat surgery on April 8 and there is some question in Nafzger's mind if the filly is up to the rigors of a race as tough as the Oaks.

"It's not a question of soundness or fitness," the trainer said. "She's sound and she's fit. But she got laid down for the surgery and I don't really know if she's over the affects of the anesthesia.

"She galloped very well this morning and cooled out fine. We drew blood this morning and we'll have the results Tuesday morning. I'll talk to Mr. Manfuso and see how he feels.

"If she's going, she'll work a half-mile Tuesday morning. If we decide not to go, she'll just gallop again.

"The question I keep asking myself is if she's 110 percent, which you have to be to run in the Oaks. I know she's 95 percent, but is she 110 percent? If she's not completely ready, a race like this could set her back six or eight weeks. I'd love to go, but right now I don't know."

TRACI'S WILD - Millard R. Seldin's Traci's Wild galloped at Trackside Monday morning and trainer Gary Thomas said she'll work at the training track Tuesday morning.

"The boss (Seldin) is coming in tonight," Thomas said, "and we'll work her tomorrow morning. We'll decide after that where she's going.

"I've been leaning toward running her in the Edgewood," the trainer said, "but Mr. Seldin has been looking at the Oaks, especially with several fillies coming out of there."

Traci's Wild, a daughter of Langfuhr, was fourth behind See How She Runs in the Fantasy Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn Park on April 12 in her first stakes try.

The $100,000 Edgewood, at one mile on the turf, will be part of the Oaks undercard on Friday.

YOU - Edmund Gann's You galloped a mile and one half Monday morning as she moved another step closer to her start Friday in the Grade I Kentucky Oaks.

The daughter of You And I had her regular guy - exercise rider Jose Cuevas - attached for the leg-stretching and she accomplished it with vigor.

"She's doing great," said trainer Robert Frankel. "I couldn't be more pleased the way she's coming up to this race."

You will have champion jockey Jerry Bailey on board in the $500,000-added Oaks.