The Fastest Horse of the Week for December 11, 2023

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00:00The TD and Writer's Room, also brought to you by the Fast Sires of Windstar Farm, as

00:04always the sponsor of our Fastest Horse of the Week segment.

00:07There are fast sires, and there were sires who were fast.

00:12And Life is Good certainly falls into the latter category among sons of Into Mischief

00:17that are standing at stud.

00:19Life is Good has the most triple-digit buyer speed figures, nine, it's got the highest

00:25buyer speed figure, 112, and as a stallion, he bred 192 mares in 2023, and Life is Good

00:34has a new fee in 2024 of $85,000.

00:38Life is Good, not just good, he's brilliant, and he stands at stud at Windstar Farm.

00:45Fastest Horse of the Week, no triple-digit buyers last week, but we have a really interesting

00:50horse at the top of the list.

00:52His name is Touch Upon a Star, he's a Louisiana bred that won the Louisiana Champion's Day

00:58Classic on Saturday at the fairgrounds, that's the day for LA breds, it's a $150,000 race

01:04at a mile and an eighth.

01:05Touch Upon a Star, owned by former NFL quarterback Jake DeLome's Set Hut Stable, trained by Jake's

01:13older brother Jeff, sources a four-year-old gelding.

01:16All he's done is win now 10 of 13 lifetime starts, and he scared away all the competition

01:22at the fairgrounds, only a four-horse field.

01:24The horse has won now nine of his last 10 races on Saturday, got a buyer speed figure

01:29of 97.

01:31Earlier this year, Touch Upon a Star ran three straight races where he had a 101, 101, and

01:37a 102 buyer speed figure.

01:39This horse can really run, he's the son of Star Guitar, the noted Louisiana stallion

01:45that only won 24 of his 30 lifetime starts.

01:49Touch Upon a Star, this week's fastest horse of the week.