D. Wayne Lukas

DARRELL WAYNE LUKAS was an American Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse trainer who won 15 Triple Crown races and 20 Breeders' Cup races, and wrote the foreword to Cliff Guilliams' Final Calls to Absent Friends.

Lukas received four Eclipse Awards for Outstanding Trainer (1985, 1986, 1987, 1994), was inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame in 1999, and was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2007. Before training horses full time, he earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Wisconsin and worked as a teacher and basketball coach.

Lukas was born in Antigo, Wisconsin, and died in Louisville, Kentucky, at age 89.

D. Wayne Lukas’s books are published by Turner Publishing.

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