His 15 Triple Crown victories, including a record six consecutive wins from 1994 to 1996, are second only to those of Bob ...

Hall of Fame horse trainer D. Wayne Lukas has died. He was 89. His family says Lukas died at his home Saturday night.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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Lukas was enshrined in the sports Hall of Fame in 1999, won the Kentucky Derby four times, the Kentucky Oaks five times and 15 Triple Crown races.

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

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 ...

He fused good horsemanship with corporate savvy, becoming the face of the sport while leading a coast-to-coast operation in the 1980s and beyond.

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 ...