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D. Wayne Lukas won six straight Triple Crown races, including the 1994 Preakness Stakes and 1996 Kentucky Derby. He helped ...
Lukas has won the Kentucky Derby four times and five Kentucky Oaks races during his time in the horse racing industry.
Lukas, who died Saturday night in Louisville at age 89, earned the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer in 1985, 1986, 1987 ...
"Wayne Lukas reinvented the game," Lanny Kohnhorst, the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association's Director of Horsemen's Relations.
A victory by Arkansas Derby runner-up Publisher in Saturday’s $300,000, Grade 3 Indiana Derby would also produce a welcome ...
By BETH HARRIS For over 50 years, D. Wayne Lukas set the standard in horse racing. And the sport followed suit. Trainers ...
A jam-packed weekend of Thoroughbred racing was overshadowed by the news that legendary trainer D. Wayne Lukas died ...
D. Wayne Lukas set the standard in horse racing. And the sport followed suit. Trainers wanted to be like Wayne. Owners wanted ...
Lukas passed away Saturday night. He won the Kentucky Derby four times and five Kentucky Oaks races during his 60-year career in the horse racing industry.
He fused good horsemanship with corporate savvy, becoming the face of the sport while leading a coast-to-coast operation in ...
Churchill Downs said D. Wayne Lukas passed away at his home in Louisville Saturday night, June 28.