Layden: D. Wayne Lukas Was Thoroughbred Racing’s First ‘Rock Star’ originally appeared on Paulick Report.

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,