Videos tagged with "lukas"

A Chat With Trainer D. Wayne Lukas at the 2012 Preakness [03:09]
Ray Paulick talks with trainer D. Wayne Lukas during festivities for Preakness 137 in Baltimore about horse racing's image, changes in the game and why the Preakness is his favorite Triple Crown race.
Tags: D. Wayne Lukas, Paulick Report, horse racing, Thoroughbred, Thoroughbred racing, Preakness

Commendable - 2000 Belmont Stakes [03:05]
With the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winners opting out, the Belmont Stakes was ripe for an upset. D. Wayne Lukas delivered. Patient Pat Day sat just off the pace on the flashy chestnut Commendable, then held the lead safe down the length of the stretch. Final time: 2:31 Owner: Bob & Beverly Lewis Trainer: D. Wayne Lukas Jockey: Pat Day
Tags: horse, horse racing, racing, Belmont, Belmont Park, Belmont Stakes, Triple Crown, D. Wayne Lukas, Wayne Lukas, Lukas, Pat Day, Commendable, upset, surprise, 2000, New York

1996 Kentucky Derby - Full Broadcast [01:07:53]
Sore heel and all, outside post and all, Unbridled's Song set the stage for a storybook finish to the 122d Kentucky Derby today when he swept into the lead with a quarter of a mile to go. But in the next 26 seconds, he tired and faded to fifth place while Grindstone mounted a gripping duel against Cavonnier and won the Derby by a nose before 142668 roaring spectators. It was the closest finish in a Derby in 37 years and the first time in 63 years that a horse won the Derby after only five races. But it was the 17th straight time the favorite had floundered. And it was the sixth straight victory in the Triple Crown series for D. Wayne Lukas, who trained 5 of the 19 horses for three owners and won it for William T. Young of Lexington, Ky., who had tried six times to win the Derby and finally did in a photo finish. The finish was the tightest since Tomy Lee outreached Sword Dancer by the length of his nose in the 1959 Derby, and not even Lukas, the most successful trainer in racing history, could pick the winner. "It was so emotional in Mr. Young's box," he related. "We jumped up and started hugging and congratulating one another. Then it struck me, and I thought, 'Maybe we didn't even win.' " But they did, and there was irony as well as melodrama in it because their dark brown colt is also a son of Unbridled, winner of the 1990 Derby -- yes, a son of Unbridled, just like Unbridled's Song. Both horses were foaled in 1993, both ran in the Derby, but Unbridled's Song weakened ...
Tags: kentucky, derby, horse, racing, 1996, grindstone, jerry, bailey, william, young, overbrook, farm, wayne, lukas, cavonnier, bobbaffert, photo, finish, close, unbridleds, song, editors, note, louis, quatorze, skip, away, jim, mckay, al, michaels, triple, cr

1999 Breeders' Cup Classic + Post Race [09:55]
1999 Breeders Cup Classic + Post Race
Tags: 1999, Breeders, Cup, Classic, horse, racing, gulfstream, cat, thief, overbrook, farm, wayne, lukas, pat, day, william, young, tom, durkin, budroyale, golden, missile, behrens, general, challenge, lemon, drop, kid, upset, longshot

1995 Fountain Of Youth Stakes [02:51]
Thunder Gulch and Suave Prospect battle to the wire..
Tags: gulfstream, park, horse, racing, mike, smith, wayne, lukas, thunder, gulch, suave, prospect, jerry, bailey, stretch, battle, duel, michael, tabor, tom, durkin, florida, kentucky, derby, winner