On your birthday Mr. Lukas, a look back at one of your charges wondering what it would be like today if somebody tried duplicating the 3YO schedule of Thunder Gulch? Coast to coast, 8 different tracks, 7 major wins. Looking back, 25-1 in the Derby was quite a bargain, thank you very much.
Belmont Park 10/7/1995 10 Jockey Club Gold Cup - Gr. 1 TB 5
Turfway Park 9/23/1995 10 Kentucky Cup Classic Handicap TB 1
Saratoga 8/19/1995 8 Travers Stakes - Gr. 1 TB 1
Hollywood Park 7/23/1995 8 Swaps Stakes - Gr. 2 TB 1
Belmont Park 6/10/1995 9 Belmont Stakes - Gr. 1 TB 1
Pimlico 5/20/1995 10 Preakness Stakes - Gr. 1 TB 3
Churchill Downs 5/6/1995 8 Kentucky Derby - Gr. 1 TB 1
Keeneland 4/15/1995 7 Blue Grass Stakes - Gr. 2 TB 4
Gulfstream Park 3/11/1995 10 Florida Derby - Gr. 1 TB 1
Gulfstream Park 2/18/1995 9 Fountain of Youth Stakes - Gr. 2 TB 1
Happy Birthday D.Wayne Lukas the only trainer in the
history of racing to be inducted into both, the quarter horse
and thoroughbred Hall of Fame. :chickendance:
Quote from: Senator L on September 02, 2016, 11:57:58 AM
Happy Birthday D.Wayne Lukas the only trainer in the
history of racing to be inducted into both, the quarter horse
and thoroughbred Hall of Fame. :chickendance:
When I was a teenager, my uncle and a friend claimed a quarter horse--off of Doc Allred--for 4k at Los Alamitos. They ran it back and it won for 5k and then its' form deteriorated and they dropped it in for 3k some 9-10 months later. Lukas claimed that horse from them and moved it right up the ladder finally winning an allowance race. When he first got into TB's I remember Lukas bought Effervescing from the Phipps and won the American Handicap at 9f on the turf--expected--and then five days later won the Citation Handicap at 8.5f on the dirt--highly unexpected. Lukas has always had the ability to know when he had a horse right and then he ran them as often a he could when they were at that peak. Happy Birthday from me and Border Run.