D. Wayne Lukas

Who is D. Wayne Lukas?

Darrell Wayne Lukas is an American horse trainer and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.

He has won a Breeder's Cup a record 19 times and has won a record 14 Triple Crown races. Fillies Lukas has trained have won the Kentucky Oaks four times. Three of his horses—Lady's Secret in 1986, Criminal Type in 1990 and Charismatic in 1999—won the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year. He has won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer four times. In 1999, the same year his horse Charismatic came within 2 lengths of the Triple Crown, he was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2007, becoming the first person to enter both the Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse halls of fame.