Lukas down to 40 horses

Originally Posted by packerbacker7964

Link? I hope it's true because I've got friends working the backside there that would love a chance to work for him.

I got the article from courier-journal.com since we get horrible racing news in Indy. Below is the link.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/...D=200661225002

He is not a youngster anymore. I know he loves what he does. Even if some do not agree with his tactics.

Originally Posted by pgardn

He is not a youngster anymore. I know he loves what he does. Even if some do not agree with his tactics.

I agree. At 71 it is hard to have operations at multiple tracks. I think it is good for him and racing to have him scale down and be at one track.

[Gander]

I think it would be good for the welfare of horses for him to be gone.

[estreetposse]

Originally Posted by Gander

I think it would be good for the welfare of horses for him to be gone.

hate to be "that guy" but i agree with Gander. Countless numbers of horses have had to end their careers short b/c of D. Wayne. While i respect him and what he's done for the sport, he has (IMO) ruined some awfully nice horses, and i rarely see much of his stock make it pass their 3 YO campaign. I think he preps them way to hard with / for triple crown races and there isn't much left of them by years end.

-bt-

that is ridiculous. shows complete lack of knowledge of lukas training program. lukas is anything but hard on a horse. he's one of the softest trainers around, which is also why he injures a lot of horses. if you watch lukas over the years he vascillates back and forth between soft training and somewhat toughter training. Lukas: "I do not work horses". lukas breezes them fairly slow every 8-10 days. does a few gallops in between at 18sec/f. and races them. that is about it. if you disbelieve the post read Ross Staaden's Winning Trainers on the subject. There is page after page of Lukas training logs. For the uninformed--it is wise to equate hard training with unsound horses, and soft training with trainers that injure horses. there's a large correlation.

rewrite part of that last post: equate sound horses with hard trainders--injured horses with soft trainers. anyone doubt it, i'll be glad to post the training of Nashua for his match race with swaps.