Tag: D. Wayne Lukas

By Lynne Snierson Florent Geroux is packing his tack and moving to Oaklawn Park this season. The addition of one of the nation’s top riders to the already intensely competitive jockey colony makes a declarative …

By Ed McNamara It was a late autumn afternoon at Turfway Park, a minor-league outpost in northern Kentucky, near the Ohio border. Not much that happens there is memorable, yet for Brad Cox it provided …

By Margaret Ransom Live racing in Southern California moves to Los Alamitos Race Course in Orange County on Friday (Dec. 4) with an eight-race thoroughbred card, which gets underway at 1 p.m. PT. The Los Angeles County …

By Miriam Lee The Breeders’ Cup Championship culminates the racing season and crowns the fleetest sprinters, the most promising two-year-olds, the best turf horses. At $2 million, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile is the richest 2-year-old …

Breeders’ Cup Classic Profile: Title Ready In the days leading up to the 37th Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky, usracing.com will profile the horses in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic …

By Margaret Ransom Who doesn’t love the Keeneland fall meet? The track in Lexington, Kentucky continues its opening weekend run on Saturday, with four Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” races, including a trio of …

By Margaret Ransom The home of the 2020 Breeders’ Cup is ready to roll out a full meet on Friday, with the traditional opener, the $350,000 Alcibiades Stakes (G1) for 2-year-old fillies, featuring three of …

By Mike Farrell Seeking the Soul and Bravazo are two of the sentimental favorites set to line up Friday in the $600,000 Clark Stakes (G2). Both horses will have solid rooting sections in the final …

By Mike Farrell Jimmy Takter remains a looming presence in the $1.2 million Hambletonian on Saturday afternoon even though he retired at the end of last year. The Hall of Fame trainer-driver certainly left his …

Recently, Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who has won practically every big race imaginable, including the Kentucky Derby four times, weighed in on the future of horse racing. While I agreed with the …

Recently, Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who has won practically every big race imaginable, including the Kentucky Derby four times, weighed in on the future of horse racing. While I agreed with the …

Saratoga’s Hopeful Stakes (G1) has only produced two Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) winners in its rich 42-year history, but it has served as an important stallion-making race on many occasions. With that in mind, a …

D. Wayne Lukas has over 4,770 career training wins, four Eclipse Awards for outstanding trainer and was voted into the thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame in 1999. On Saturday, he’ll send out Horse Fly, …

I love horse racing. Ever since I went to Longacres for the first time and watched a horse named Utah Canyon crush the field in the feature, I’ve been hooked. In fact, my obsession with …