Touchuponastar can tie a record Saturday when he attempts to win the $150,000 Louisiana Premier Night Championship for the fourth consecutive year at Delta Downs. The 1 1/16-mile race is the centerpiece of a card featuring six stakes for Louisiana-breds. Purses for the entire 11-race program total nearly $1 million, making Louisiana Premier Night the richest card of the meet at Delta. First post is 4:45 p.m. Central. Touchuponastar will see action in the sixth race. He’s part of a field of five for the stakes his sire, Star Guitar, won four straight years from 2009-12. Touchuponastar comes into this year’s renewal off an unprecedented fourth consecutive win in the Louisiana Champions Day Classic on Dec. 13 at Fair Grounds. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. “It’s a testament to the horse,” owner Jake Delhomme said of the exceptional feat. “It’s just a testament to the breeders, to the sire, to the dam. It’s all of that. It’s very hard to keep horses good. He takes care of himself. He enjoys training. He enjoys what he does. He kind of gives you signs when he wants to do more. “To me, it’s a testament to the horse, the sire line, the dam side, how he was raised. All that.” Touchuponastar is launching his 7-year-old season in the Premier Night Championship. He was a 12 1/4-length winner of the race last year, propelling him to arguably his best season on the track. He went 6 for 7 with wins in the Grade 2 New Orleans Classic in March at Fair Grounds with a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 109, and the $100,000 Delta Downs Mile in November with a Beyer of 108. In all, Touchuponastar earned six triple-digit Beyers in 2025. Touchuponastar’s record landed him an invite to the $3 million Pegasus World Cup run last month at Gulfstream Park. “We gave great consideration to go and run in the Pegasus,” Delhomme said. “They contacted us, starting in late October. We thought about it pretty hard.” Another development that came out of Toughuponastar’s big season was an NFL Films feature on Delhomme – a retired quarterback for the Carolina Panthers – and Touchuponastar. “When he won the New Orleans Classic last year, a lady from NFL Films, Emily Edwards, contacted me and said, ‘We’d like to do a piece, what guys are doing after the helmet,’ ” Delhomme said. “And so they came this summer and they spent two full days. It was a cool piece. It was fun to watch.” Touchuponastar will break from post 7 for trainer Jeff Delhomme. He has used his natural speed to build a career record of 19 wins from 26 starts for earnings of $1.6 million and could either show the way in the Louisiana Premier Night Championship or track fellow speed horses A Million Moons and Saint Gabriel. Both are sharp opponents, noted Jake Delhomme, with each entering off back-to-back wins at Delta. “Hopefully he can show up and run well on Saturday,” Jake Delhomme said. “He’s training well.” Timothy Thornton will be aboard Touchuponastar, whom he has ridden in all of his races except his career debut when he finished second at Fair Grounds. “Timmy is a patient rider, and he gets in a really good rhythm with him,” said Jake Delhomme. “They get along really well. They’ve been a good team, to say the least.” Touchuponastar, who has won 16 stakes in his career, is returning to a Delta surface over which he is 8 for 9. Options for Secret Faith Secret Faith, who is 3 for 3 at Delta, is cross-entered in both the $125,000 Distaff at a mile and the $125,000 Matron at five furlongs. Both races are for fillies and mares. Secret Faith has been racing around one turn recently, but her wins at Delta have all come around two turns. The local wins have been against stakes company. Overall, she is a 10-time stakes winner who has earned more than $700,000. In her last four starts, Secret Faith has won three stakes. She enters Saturday night’s card off a runner-up finish to Blue Fire in the Bob F. Wright Memorial on Jan. 10 at Fair Grounds. Blue Fire was to have run back Friday in an overnight stakes at Oaklawn Park. Secret Faith is a daughter of Aurelius Maximus who races for Norman Stables. C.J. McMahon has been named to ride the filly by trainer Jayde Gelner. She drew the rail for the Distaff, in which she would face the talented Rising Inflation, and pulled post 6 for the 10-horse Matron. ◗ Gelner has another leading contender on the card in Mor Force, who goes in the $125,000 Prince. The seven-furlong race for 3-year-olds is a two-turn configuration at Delta. In the companion race, the $125,000 Starlet for fillies, Gelner will saddle a chief contender in Liteupthenite. ◗ A full field of 10 is signed on for the $125,000 Sprint. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.