D Wayne Lukas

[rudydee]

another embarassing effort by a D Wayne Lukas trainee...

Satish Sanan had a huge smile on his face for many different reasons yesterday

[Rokeby Forever]

God, did Dwayne do a job on Sanan. $4.4 Million for Colonial Boy and $67 Million in two years...LMAO!!!!! If Jess Jackson thinks he got taken for a ride with Headley, maybe Sanan should do some investigating.

[Toccet02]

I had to snicker, myself.
Jet Blue stuck-on-the-runway in coach class, maybe.

[Sysonby]

He's a need to lead Calbred who has never won over a mile thrown into a race with quality speed like Hard Spun.

Why was he in the Preakness again?

[Danzig]

Desperation, narcissism, and senility can be a very dangerous combination.

[Rokeby Forever]

At least in this Preakness, he didn't scrape his horse off the track like he did with poor, crippled Union City. RIP, Union City...we still remember you and we don't forgive that wrinkled, captoothed piece of **** Lukas!

How does the friggin' media give him a free pass on that? He should have been executed for running Union City in the Preakness! I don't know how Pimlico lets him into the track and how he has the nerve to show his face there. Mike Battaglia, you kissass idiot...say something!

[rudydee]

Danzig

That was well said!!!!

[zinn21]

Lukas seems to be trying to catch lightning in a bottle late in his career. Watching yesterday's Preakness-the first thing I was curious about after the race was where did Flying First Class finish? Ninth beaten 29 1/2 lengths. Pretty sad but quite predictable..

When you have Carl Nafzger telling HRTV prior to the race that D. Wayne Lukas changed the game and is one of the great managers in the training business I guess it's pretty hard to pass on the Midway even with a Cal Bred sprinter way over his head..

[wallinga]

When you have Carl Nafzger telling HRTV prior to the race that D. Wayne Lukas changed the game and is one of the great managers in the training business I guess it's pretty hard to pass on the Midway even with a Cal Bred sprinter way over his head..

more honest

[bdw0617]

what baffles me more are the OWNERS that let him get away with literarly murder.


Take Flying First class. That's a horse with a definate future...SPRINTING

He's a Graded stakes calibur sprinter, one that could possibly be in the BC sprint or even the sprint ove rin dubai if he gets better, which can make the owners money (or at least a return on investment), and might go to stud one day and be a nice regional type stud.. all in all A very nice experience for owners.
But what he is doing to owners, and the horse is just murderous. he is sucking the joy out of the horse racing industry because of his need to catch lighting in a bottle.

I don't think he's a bad trainer. I think he is a very good trainer actually, one of the best. I just think that his need to run anything with a pulse in a derby of some type makes him awful. And my gosh.. don't let him actually get his hands on a REAL derby horse.

lol, one thing is for sure, you wuldn't have to worry bout Say, Street Sense NOT going to the Belmont if D Wayne was the trainer, i can pretty much bank on that. D Wayne is probably at the Bluegrass, passing out brochures of all the upcoming 3 year old events him an SS would be attenting for the rest of the year, and at the bottom of the page it says in small letters "all is subject to me not running the horse in the ground"

[Rokeby Forever]

Read my tagline below and tell me that Lukas is one of the best. The guy trains with a meat cleaver! Grrr!!!!

[bdw0617]

I'm just 23 years old.. can't say I know who union city is, but am I right in assuming it's a horse that D WAYNE ran into the ground in his persuit of happiness?

I do remember going wild however... and this was before I realized that he had a problem.. i was saying to myself "what the **** is this trainer thinking... he has no shot... and he just keeps coming back for more"

[Rokeby Forever]

BDW, you're correct that he ran Union City into the ground....six feet under the ground. Tank's Prospect limped off the track after the Preakness and was eased in the Belmont, but at least that horse survived.

He taught his cloned son, Turd Pletcher, well. Look at Keyed Entry's management without trying to get angry.

[Toccet02]

BDW, you're correct that he ran Union City into the ground....six feet under the ground. Tank's Prospect limped off the track after the Preakness and was eased in the Belmont, but at least that horse survived.

What justification is there for running a horse back in 3 weeks after a visible limp after a major TC race?

[casallc]

Lukas seems to be trying to catch lightning in a bottle late in his career. Watching yesterday's Preakness-the first thing I was curious about after the race was where did Flying First Class finish? Ninth beaten 29 1/2 lengths. Pretty sad but quite predictable..

When you have Carl Nafzger telling HRTV prior to the race that D. Wayne Lukas changed the game and is one of the great managers in the training business I guess it's pretty hard to pass on the Midway even with a Cal Bred sprinter way over his head..

I have known Lukas since before he started training TB's. I shared a barn with him at Centennial in the mid 70's. I've never cared much for the guy and always thought he was a much better politician than trainer. Were it not for some wealthy Oklahoma owners that kept him in stock, you would have never heard of him. However, Nafzger is right about him changing the TB game. Like him or not, he has an eye for a horse. Before Lukas, thoroughbred buyers were buying mainly by the amount of black type and most wouldn't know a good horse if it ran over them. Lucas changed that, buying conformation, along with the show barn style he has put the flash and excellence in management into TB racing. Whether I or anyone else likes him, what Nafzger said was a true statement. If you can get past the jealousy of most people, they would give most anything to have his legacy.