During the first morning training after D. Wayne Lukas' death, backside workers paid tribute to the legendary trainer and ...

The Kentucky Derby Museum is honoring the legacy of Hall of Fame horse trainer D. Wayne Lukas. Lukas died Saturday at age 89 after battling a severe infection. His career spanned more than six decades ...

The horse racing world mourns the death of Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas at 89. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — People from around the world of horse racing are sharing their reaction to the death of Hall of ...

D. Wayne Lukas, a prominent horse trainer, died June 28 at age 89. Lukas stabled on the backside of Churchill Downs since 1989. Lukas' death came on the eve of the final day of racing for the 2025 ...

Organizations and individuals within the Thoroughbred racing community reflect on contributions and legacy of legendary ...

Lukas touched the lives of many people throughout Antigo, both in and outside the sport of horse racing. Haefs was a ...

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, ...

D. Wayne Lukas, the Hall of Famer who became one of the most accomplished thoroughbred trainers in the history of horse racing, died on Saturday. He was 89.

To see how the legacy of the late D. Wayne Lukas will live on in the sport he loved — and helped to change — you only had to watch the final day of Churchill Downs’ spring meet on Sunday.

Lukas has won the Kentucky Derby four times and five Kentucky Oaks races during his time in the horse racing industry.

"Wayne Lukas reinvented the game," Lanny Kohnhorst, the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association's Director of Horsemen's Relations. "Wayne produced champions, from Grade 1 winners to stallion prospects to ...

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 ...