Happy 81st DWL

[stark]

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      

[Senator L]

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:

[curtis]

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.