Legendary horse racing trainer D. Wayne Lukas — a four-time Kentucky Derby winner — has died. The Lukas family released a statement Sunday afternoon: “It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing ...
D. Wayne Lukas didn’t become a full-time thoroughbred trainer until 1978, when he was 42. That late start didn’t stop him from becoming the most accomplished and influential trainer in the history of ...
Notable reaction to the death of thoroughbred trainer D. Wayne Lukas: “Wayne was a game changer, transforming horse racing for the better. He made it so the horse's bloodlines were more important than ...
D. Wayne Lukas, the legendary horse trainer who won 15 Triple Crown races, has died, his family announced on Sunday. He was 89, Lukas had recently been hospitalized with a severe MRSA blood infection ...
Maryland racing colleagues remembered D. Wayne Lukas, the thoroughbred trainer whose horses captured six Preakness Stakes, as a “rock star” and the sport’s “greatest ambassador.” Mr. Lukas, who died ...
The sad news about D. Wayne Lukas this week sent the memory galloping across the half-century of the Hall of Fame trainer’s career, trying to identify the one horse, one race, one moment that sums him ...
Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, one of the most prolific trainers and influences in horse racing history, passed away peacefully at his home in Louisville, Ky. on Saturday night. He was 89. The ...
Across the breadth of the last 15 years, as Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse trainer D. Wayne Lukas aged into his ninth decade of life and yet remarkably continued to contest and occasionally win some ...
FILE - Trainer D. Wayne Lukas sits atop his horse as he watches morning workouts against the backdrop of a large tent set up in the infield before sunrise at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., April ...