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Originally Posted by dean smith
I've absorbed enough of the game's history since to know that he practically owned the '80s, won four Kentucky Derbies, was the face of horseracing, etc. He was the most successful trainer out there. What happened in between? How did he become (relatively, to what he was) such complete horse$hit?
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He lost his biggest owner, Gene Klein. With Klein's money, Lukas was able to compete with foreign buyers at the Keeneland and Saratoga yearling sales. That is not to say that Lukas lacked other owners with deep pockets. He trained for Overbrook, Sanan, Lewis, Tabor, and Thoroughbred Corp, among others, over the years. But those owners tended to spread their horses among several trainers.
05-18-2010, 09:39 PM
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