Lukas died on the evening of June 28 at age 89. He was hospitalized in Louisville last week after a severe MRSA blood infection caused significant damage to the thoroughbred trainer's heart, digestive ...

Notable reaction to the death of thoroughbred trainer D. Wayne Lukas:___“To borrow from the great writer Joe Hirsch: There once was a trainer named D. Wayne Lukas, but only once.” — Larry Collmus, ...

Born Darnell Wayne Lukas on Sept. 2, 1935, in Wisconsin as the second of three children, he rose to prominence in the sport with quarter horses in races that are effectively sprints. He moved into ...

Lukas, who died Saturday night in Louisville at age 89, earned the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer in 1985, 1986, 1987 ...

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 ...

D. Wayne Lukas' high school basketball coaching record wasn't too memorable, but he left a lasting impression on former ...

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Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who passed away this Saturday, leaves behind 4,953 wins and a historic 1995 Triple Crown sweep with two different horses. Tributes flooded social media for the ...

Lukas believed Kentucky will “always be good” because of Churchill Downs and Keeneland, but that smaller tracks were going to suffer mainly because of casinos and how gambling has become easily ...

Lukas trained thousands of thoroughbred horses, and 51 ran in 31 different Kentucky Derbys. He won the race four times.

As one of the most prolific and accomplished trainers in horse racing, D. Wayne Lukas has played an integral role not only in ...

Ben. It also was the year D. Wayne Lukas won his only training title at the Omaha racetrack. Lukas, who died Saturday at age 89, began what would be a Hall of Fame career by training quarter horses in ...