The family of Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas announced on June 22 that the 89-year-old had immediately retired from training and entered home hospice care due to a severe infection. That announcement prefaced an outpouring of tributes to Lukas,

The Hall of Famer, who has entered hospice at 89, won so many big races with so many horses that it’s hard to identify him with just one.

Across the breadth of the last 15 years, as Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse trainer D. Wayne Lukas aged into his ninth decade of life and yet remarkably continued to contest and occasionally win some of the sport's biggest races,