Touchuponastar, who put up the year’s highest Beyer Speed Figure in a two-turn race last month at Delta Downs, is on pace to make his next start closing weekend at Fair Grounds, according to his owner, Jake Delhomme. Touchuponastar earned a Beyer of 106 for his 11 1/2-length win in the Louisiana Premier Night Championship on Feb. 7. He won under his regular rider, Timothy Thornton, who also often works Touchuponastar for trainer Jeff Delhomme. Touchuponastar has since been breezing at his base of Copper Crowne Training Center in Opelousas, La. “He’s doing well,” Jake Delhomme said. “Timmy feels very happy with him, feels like he’s really on top of his game right now, and he’s certainly been training that way since the race at Delta. “We’re going to point to running him closing weekend at the Fair Grounds. We’ll probably do what we did last year, enter the New Orleans Classic on the Saturday and also the Louisiana-bred stakes on the Sunday, as a possible backup. We’ll play it by ear, see where we want to run him, how it fits, and go from there.” The Grade 2, $500,000 New Orleans Classic is for 4-year-olds and up over 1 1/8 miles on March 21. The $100,000 Star Guitar for 4-year-olds and up bred in Louisiana will be run at 1 1/16 miles on March 22. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Delhomme said his preference would be the New Orleans Classic, which Touchuponastar won in 2025. “The New Orleans Classic, I would love to do that,” he said. “That’s what we’d love to do. That’s the hope. I don’t know what would make me change my mind. We’ll just kind of see how it goes.” Delhomme said one variable he will monitor is the weather, as Touchuponastar did not handle an extremely wet track in a race last year at Lone Star Park. Touchuponastar is now 7 and has put up seven triple-digit Beyer Figures since last year’s Premier Night Championship, which he won one start out from the New Orleans Classic. “He hasn’t given us any indication that he’s starting to slow down at all,” Delhomme said. “And I think a lot comes from genetics. His dad ran very competitively through his 8-year-old year. And he’s fairly lightly raced, to be quite honest. It’s not like he has a ton of races. And he’s very easy on himself in training. He enjoys training and he’s not one that’s hard on himself in training.” Touchuponastar has won 20 of 27 starts for earnings of $1.7 million. “We’re just enjoying every day with him and hopefully, we can continue on this ride,” Delhomme said. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.