No Parole leads all the way in Louisiana Premier Sprint

No Parole took no prisoners in the $100,000 Louisiana Premier Sprint on Wednesday a Delta Downs.

The Grade 1 winner making his 4-year-old debut showed his ample speed, crossing over from post 8, setting a fast pace, turning back an upper-stretch challenge from Bertie’s Galaxy, and going on to win by 2 3/4 lengths.

Bertie’s Galaxy, who nearly drew even with No Parole at the eighth pole (which sits at the top of the homestretch on the short Delta oval), easily held second over Double Barrel Man.

Under Diego Saenz, No Parole ($2.20) went a half-mile in 44.93 seconds, which is really sizzling on the deep Delta dirt, and was timed in 57.37 in the five-furlong Sprint.

“He’s very fast and he showed that today,” said Tom Amoss, who trains No Parole for Maggi Moss and Greg Tramontin.

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No Parole won the one-mile Premier Prince last winter at Delta but failed to stay two turns in higher-level races and settled in as a crack sprinter, winning the Grade 1 Woody Stephens at Belmont Park last summer. No Parole is a son of Violence and the Bluegrass Cat mare Plus One.

* Southern Beauty ($5.20) powered to the lead off the turn and rolled to an easy score in the $100,000 Matron for older Louisiana-bred fillies and mares. She ran five furlongs on dirt in 59.41 while giving Saenz his fourth winner, three in stakes races, on the Delta card. Bret Calhoun trains Southern Beauty, who won her first stakes race, for Allied Racing Stables. The 4-year-old filly is a daughter of Calibrachoa out of Isn’t She Gorgeous, by Yes It’s True.