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He fused good horsemanship with corporate savvy, becoming the face of the sport while leading a coast-to-coast operation in ...
D. Wayne Lukas set the standard in horse racing. And the sport followed suit. Trainers wanted to be like Wayne. Owners wanted ...
By BETH HARRIS For over 50 years, D. Wayne Lukas set the standard in horse racing. And the sport followed suit. Trainers ...
Lukas has won the Kentucky Derby four times and five Kentucky Oaks races during his time in the horse racing industry.
D. Wayne Lukas won six straight Triple Crown races, including the 1994 Preakness Stakes and 1996 Kentucky Derby. He helped ...
During the first morning training after D. Wayne Lukas' death, backside workers paid tribute to the legendary trainer and ...
D. Wayne Lukas, who was raised on a 10-acre farm outside Antigo, Wisconsin, had recently been hospitalized with a severe blood infection.
The peaceful death of four-time Kentucky Derby winning trainer D. Wayne Lukas at home in Lexington on Saturday at age 89 was ...
Lukas, who died Saturday night in Louisville at age 89, earned the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer in 1985, 1986, 1987 ...
A jam-packed weekend of Thoroughbred racing was overshadowed by the news that legendary trainer D. Wayne Lukas died ...
Two-year-old thoroughbreds flashed past him, hooves thundering down the rail. He turned to the railbirds and half-jokingly told them, "One day, I'll just roll off this pony onto the track and let the ...