Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, 89, who announced the end of his training career just a week ago, has passed away, his family said.
The news that Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, gravely ill, would retire from training caught the racing world off-guard.
Preakness trainers shared laughs — and exchanged barbs — during a light-hearted renewal of Pimlico’s venerable Alibi Breakfast Thursday.
Jockey Nik Juarez is back home to see his old retired horse, eat some crabcakes, visit with family and friends — oh, and ride in the Preakness.
Trainer D. Wayne Lukas, a Preakness lover through and through, is back at age 89 with Virginia Derby winner American Promise.
Journalism, a winner of four straight capped by the Santa Anita Derby, is the 3-1 morning line favorite for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby.
Wrestler-turned-jockey Nik Juarez, a long way from his rebellious youth in Maryland, is expected to ride American Promise in the Kentucky Derby.
The way the Virginia Derby unfolded was exactly to the plan mapped out by American Promise’s trainer D. Wayne Lukas.
D. Wayne Lukas has himself another Kentucky Derby horse, as the suddenly mature American Promise blitzed the field in the Virginia Derby.
Octogenarian trainer D. Wayne Lukas hopes formerly “big, awkward teenager” American Promise is ready to step forward in Saturday’s Virginia Derby.