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By BETH HARRIS For over 50 years, D. Wayne Lukas set the standard in horse racing. And the sport followed suit. Trainers ...
Even into his late 80s, the legendary trainer made the middle leg of the Triple Crown into an event worth talking about. His ...
"Wayne Lukas reinvented the game," Lanny Kohnhorst, the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association's Director of Horsemen's Relations.
D. Wayne Lukas won six straight Triple Crown races, including the 1994 Preakness Stakes and 1996 Kentucky Derby. He helped ...
The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) mourns the passing of legendary Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas at age 89, ...
Simplification and Verifying, both Kentucky Derby alums who stand at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Florida, will spend the ...
The Kentucky Derby Festival has released the dates for 16 of its signature events in 2026 to help people get a jumpstart on ...
D. Wayne Lukas, who was raised on a 10-acre farm outside Antigo, Wisconsin, had recently been hospitalized with a severe blood infection.
D. Wayne Lukas’s reign over the horse racing world reached its zenith just as I became a fan. This was the mid-‘90s, when he was his sport’s answer to Pat Riley: the stylish suits, the shades, the ...
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 ...
D. Wayne Lukas won 15 Triple Crown races, including six in a row and 20 Breeders' Cup world championships during his ...