"Wayne Lukas reinvented the game," Lanny Kohnhorst, the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association's Director of Horsemen's Relations. "Wayne produced champions, from Grade 1 winners to stallion prospects to next generation of trainers, and defined American Thoroughbred racing."

By The Associated Press Notable reaction to the death of thoroughbred trainer D. Wayne Lukas: ___ “To borrow from the great writer Joe Hirsch: There once was a trainer named D. Wayne Lukas,