Unbeaten 3-year-old No Parole will make his first start outside Louisiana-bred competition in the $1 million Rebel Stakes on March 14 at Oaklawn Park.

Part-owner Maggi Moss announced the race choice on Twitter after No Parole worked a half-mile in 49.40 on Monday at Fair Grounds. Tom Amoss trains No Parole and has the crack 4-year-old filly Serengeti Empress pointed to the $350,000 Azeri Stakes on the same Oaklawn program.

Champion filly British Idiom tops the list of 116 early nominations for the Grade 1, $1.25 million Kentucky Oaks, to be contested May 1 at Churchill Downs. That number is virtually identical to the 115 nominees for the filly classic whom Churchill Downs announced as eligible at this time last year.

Zulu Alpha is the likely favorite in the Grade 2, $200,000 Mac Diarmida on the Gulfstream Park undercard Saturday based on his 11-1 victory in the Pegasus World Cup Turf.

Trainer Mike Maker said the 1 3/8-mile Mac Diarmida is a bridge toward the next main goal for the 7-year-old gelding, the Grade 1 Old Forester Turf Classic on the May 2 Kentucky Derby undercard.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Dale Romans is hoping Mr Freeze runs well enough Saturday in a rugged renewal of the Grade 2, $300,000 Gulfstream Park Mile to merit sending the 5-year-old horse to Dubai for the March 28 Godolphin Mile.

Romans, however, would prefer not to make the overseas trip himself.

“I’m planning on standing right about here,” Romans said from his familiar perch in the Gulfstream Park grandstand as training wound down Sunday.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Ron Paolucci resisted the urge to run the maiden filly Nikki and Papa in the Fountain of Youth on Saturday at Gulfstream Park, but perhaps only in deference to his ownership partners.

“I had somebody just buy in for 20 percent of the filly,” Paolucci said Monday from Texas, “and now I own 50 percent of her. I’d love to have run her against the boys if this was like her third start, but she’s only run the one time. Hopefully, we’ll be able to do it when the circumstances are a little more in our favor.”

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Americanus earned himself an opportunity to compete in one of the upcoming Kentucky Derby preps after winning a loaded first-level allowance race for 3-year-olds going seven furlongs Saturday.

Americanus slipped up the rail under jockey Javier Castellano to register a one-length victory over debut winner Violent City, with the highly regarded pair of Silver Ratio and Cost Basis also in his wake. The win was the second in four starts for Americanus, a son of War Front who posted a career-high 82 Beyer Speed Figure in the process.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Two local jockeys with ties to three horses currently considered major players on the Kentucky Derby trail will be sidelined indefinitely after sustaining injuries in two separate riding mishaps occurring less than 24 hours apart here last week.

Even with the surprise news Monday that dual-champion Covfefe had been retired, trainer Brad Cox’s outfit is absolutely loaded for the first part of the 2020 racing season. Cox has a bunch of good horses already on the go, and his roster is only getting deeper with 2018 champion 3-year-old filly Monomoy Girl penciled in for a breeze this weekend, Grade 1-class turf mare Juliet Foxtrot also set for her first work of the year, and Owendale, who could be a top handicap horse this year, back under tack at a Kentucky farm.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Green Light Go is in but Structor will be out when entries are drawn early Wednesday afternoon for Saturday’s Grade 2 Fountain of Youth.

Trainer Jimmy Jerkens said Monday he intends to run his Grade 2 winner Green Light Go in the 1 1/16-mile Fountain of Youth, but the much-anticipated 3-year-old and main-track debut for the undefeated Chad Brown-trainee Structor will have to wait another day.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Roy H, the champion sprinter of 2017 and 2018, has advanced to galloping on a daily basis at the San Luis Rey Training Center in an attempt at a comeback, trainer Peter Miller said on Sunday.

Roy H has not raced since a win in the Grade 2 Palos Verdes Stakes at Santa Anita in January 2019. An 8-year-old gelding, Roy H was sent to Dubai for the Group 1 Golden Shaheen last March, but developed a foot abscess and was forced to miss the race.

“He’s galloped a few days and looking strong,” Miller said. “The foot is as good as it’s been in a year.”