O n a day just before the 151st Kentucky Derby, D. Wayne Lukas sat tall atop his stable pony, surveying the Churchill Downs backstretch like a general at morning roll call. Two-ye ...

"Wayne Lukas reinvented the game," Lanny Kohnhorst, the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association's Director of Horsemen's Relations.

D. Wayne Lukas, who was raised on a 10-acre farm outside Antigo, Wisconsin, had recently been hospitalized with a severe blood infection.