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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 ...
D. Wayne Lukas, a member of the National Racing Hall of Fame and one of horse racing’s most prolific and influential trainers ...
Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who passed away this Saturday, leaves behind 4,953 wins and a historic 1995 Triple Crown ...
By The Associated Press Notable reaction to the death of thoroughbred trainer D. Wayne Lukas: ___ “Wayne was a game changer, ...
One of the most iconic personalities in horse racing and a man that helped transform the face of the industry over the past ...
Drivers, crew, fans, and Beatrice Speedway Hall of Fame inductees came together for hot and humid night at the speedway. More ...
D. Wayne Lukas set the standard in horse racing. And the sport followed suit. Trainers wanted to be like Wayne. Owners wanted ...
Lukas was enshrined in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in 1999. After college, he began his career as a high school teacher and basketball coach in Wisconsin, ...
Instead, he was always looking for the next great horse, the next big stakes win. — first trainer to be inducted in both the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame and the American Quarter Horse ...
Born Darnell Wayne Lukas on Sept. 2, 1935, in Wisconsin as the second of three children, he rose to prominence in the sport ...
A four-time Kentucky Derby winner and 20-time Breeders’ Cup champion, Lukas didn’t just train champions — he trained the ...