Louisiana Premier Day at Delta Downs is meant to attract the best Louisiana-breds in training. This year, there’s more proven quality to the program than that. Wednesday’s Louisiana Premier card at Delta drew a Grade 1 winner, No Parole, and a second horse, Cilla, who finished third in the Grade 1 Frizette to end her 2-year-old campaign. The 10-race card, first post set for 12:55 p.m. Central, includes six stakes races as well as several rich starter-allowance contests. The local forecast calls for a 30 percent chance of afternoon showers. No Parole will be among the day’s shortest-priced favorites when he makes his 4-year-old debut in the $100,000 Premier Sprint over five furlongs. Trained by Tom Amoss for Maggi Moss, No Parole emerged as one of the fastest dirt sprinters of his generation during 2020, peaking with a 3 3/4-length score in the Grade 1 Woody Stephens over seven furlongs at Belmont last June. No Parole tailed off in his final two starts at age 3, but the first three races of his career show how formidable he should be Wednesday. Those starts are his only races in Louisiana-bred competition, and No Parole laid waste to his rivals in a pair of Fair Grounds sprints and in the one-mile Premier Prince a year ago at Delta. No Parole hasn’t raced at a distance shorter than six furlongs but is loaded with speed and should have little trouble adapting to this abbreviated trip. Cilla, meanwhile, drew the outside post among seven entrants in the $100,000 Premier Starlet over one mile. A homebred owned by Dale Ladner and Brett Brinkman and trained by Brinkman, Cilla is the fourth foal to race out of Sittin At the Bar, a nine-time winner in Louisiana-bred stakes competition. Sittin At the Bar has proven also to be an excellent broodmare; her four foals to race are winners, including Club Car, an earner of nearly $300,000, and multiple stakes winner Jack the Umpire. :: Want to get your Past Performances for free? Click to learn more. Cilla campaigned on the East Coast during her 2-year-old campaign, which ended with a distant third behind Dayoutoftheoffice and Vequist in the Frizette. Yet Cilla might not be favored in the Starlet since she faces Australasia, a Brad Cox-trained filly who won her debut, a Fair Grounds sprint, by nearly nine lengths and rolled to an easy victory Jan. 12 at Delta in the $75,000 Louisiana Jewel Stakes. Premier Championship Underpressure might as well be the poster boy for the Louisiana Premier card. The 7-year-old gelding won the Premier Prince as a 3-year-old of 2017, finished second in the 2018 Premier Championship and sixth in 2019, and won the Championship in 2020. He’s back for his fourth start in the $125,000 race on Wednesday but is only one of several plausible winners in a competitive field. Underpressure, trained by Chris Richard for Richard Mallory, returned from a nine-month layoff to finish fourth in the Champions Day Classic in December at Fair Grounds, shaking off rust in that start and finishing an improved second about a month later in a Fair Grounds allowance race of quality comparable to the Champions Day Classic. Underpressure’s fondness for the tricky Delta surface should come in handy Wednesday, but the horse that beat him last out at Fair Grounds, Pound for Pound, likes Delta, too. Pound for Pound is a four-time Delta winner who had the lead a furlong from the finish in the 2020 Premier Championship before being caught by Underpressure. Pound for Pound has more speed and is a year younger than his rival and has a decent chance to best Underpressure in this meeting. Double Star is an improved horse over the last several months and beat Pound for Pound in a Delta allowance earlier this meet. Jus Lively raced Saturday at Fair Grounds and figures to be scratched. Premier Prince The Premier Prince, for 3-year-olds over one mile, could offer a chance to find betting value since Jimmy Two Times is listed as the 9-5 morning-line favorite. Jimmy Two Times never has raced at Delta, and the pair of late 2020 Fair Grounds wins that give him a claim to favoritism came over sloppy tracks the gelding clearly relished. Standing Perfect won the Louisiana Legacy at Delta last month and figures to challenge Jimmy Two Times for favoritism, but while he’s a legitimate win candidate, a couple longer-priced entrants merit a look. Drewhustle finished third behind Standing Perfect in the 7 1/2-furlong Louisiana Legacy but should appreciate the added distance he gets Wednesday and looks like a later-maturing horse with a chance to exceed his previous peak performance. He’s 6-1 on the line, while 8-1 Wise Verdict was cleverly spotted for a $20,000 maiden-claiming debut win before rallying past first-level allowance foes in a Jan. 5 Delta allowance. ◗ Mr. Al’s Gal is difficult to oppose as the favorite in the $100,000 Matron over five furlongs, but the $100,000 Premier Distaff over one mile looks more competitive. The pick is Quickfast N Ahurry, who appears to be coming into her own early in her 4-year-old season and could be rallying into a contested pace.