Birthdate - Sept. 2, 1935
NATIONAL/ECLIPSE CHAMPIONS
Althea: Top 2-Year-Old Filly (1983)
Azeri: Top Older Female (2004)
Boston Harbor: Top 2-Year-Old Male (1996)
Capote: Top 2-Year-Old Male (1986)
Charismatic: Horse of the Year (1999); Top 3-Year-Old Male (1999)
Criminal Type: Horse of the Year (1990); Top Older Male (1990)
Family Style: Top 2-Year-Old Filly (1985)
Flanders: Top 2-Year-Old Filly (1994)
Folklore: Top 2-Year-Old Filly (2005)
Golden Attraction: Top 2-Year-Old Filly (1995)
Gulch: Top Sprinter (1988)
Lady’s Secret: Horse of the Year (1986); Top Older Female (1986)
Landaluce: Top 2-Year-Old Filly (1982)
Life’s Magic: Top 3-Year-Old Filly (1984); Top Older Female (1985)
North Sider: Top Older Female (1987)
Open Mind: Top 2-Year-Old Filly (1988); Top 3-Year-Old Filly (1989)
Orientate: Top Sprinter (2002)
Sacahuista: Top 3-Year-Old Filly (1987)
Serena’s Song: Top 3-Year-Old Filly (1995)
Steinlen: Top Turf Male (1989)
Surfside: Top 3-Year-Old Filly (2000)
Thunder Gulch: Top 3-Year-Old Male (1995)
Timber Country: Top 2-Year-Old Male (1994)
Winning Colors: Top 3-Year-Old Filly (1988)
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
* Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999.
* Won the Eclipse Award as Top Trainer four times - 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1994.
* Has trained 24 Eclipse Award winners, more than any other trainer in history.
* Became the first trainer in history to reach $200 million in career earnings in 1999.
* Has won 13 Triple Crown races, taking the Kentucky Derby four times (filly Winning Colors in 1988, Thunder Gulch in 1995, Grindstone in 1996 and Charismatic in 1999); the Preakness five times (Codex in 1980, Tank’s Prospect in 1985, Tabasco Cat in 1994, Timber Country in 1995 and Charismatic in 1999) and the Belmont Stakes four times (Tabasco Cat in 1994, Thunder Gulch in 1995, Editor’s Note in 1996 and Commendable in 2000).
* With exception of 1993, Lukas led the nation in earnings every year from 1983-97.
* Won six straight Triple Crown races from the 1994 Preakness Stakes (Tabasco Cat) to the 1996 Kentucky Derby (Grindstone).
* Became the first trainer to win all three legs of the Triple Crown with two different horses in 1995 when Thunder Gulch won the Kentucky Derby and Belmont and Timber Country won the Preakness.
* Trained 23 world champion quarter horses, including two-time Horse of the Year Dash for Cash.
* Grew up on a 10-acre farm a few miles outside of Antigo, WI, a dairy and farming town with a population of about 8,600.
* Worked as an assistant basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin for two years and coached high school for nine years.
NOTABLE STAKES WINS
Althea: Arkansas Derby (1984); Las Virgenes (1984); Hollywood Starlet (1983); Del Mar Futurity (1983); Juvenile Ch. (1983)
Azeri: Spinster (2004); Go for Wand (2004); Apple Blossom (2004)
Blush With Pride: Kentucky Oaks (1982); Ashland (1982)
Boston Harbor: Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (1996)
Cape Town: Florida Derby (1998)
Capote: Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (1986); Norfolk (1986)
Cash Run: Breeders’ Cup Juv. Fillies (1999)
Cat Thief: Breeders’ Cup Classic (1999); Swaps (1999)
Charismatic: Preakness (1999); Kentucky Derby (1999)
Chimes Band: Fall Highweight (1994); King’s Bishop (1994)
Codex: Preakness (1980); Hollywood Derby (1980); Santa Anita Derby (1980)
Commendable: Belmont Stakes (2000)
Corporate Report: Travers (1991)
Criminal Type: Whitney (1990); Hollywood Gold Cup (1990); Metropolitan H. (1990); Pimlico Special (1990)
Dublin: Hopeful (2009)
Dynaformer: Discovery (1988)
Editor’s Note: Super Derby (1996); Belmont Stakes (1996)
Family Style: La Canada (1987); Spinaway (1985); Frizette (1985)
Farma Way: Santa Anita H. (1991); Pimlico Special (1991)
Feel the Beat: Interborough (1990-91); Ballerina (1990); Cicada (1988)
Fiesta Gal: Coaching Club American Oaks (1987); Mother Goose (1987)
Fiesta Lady: Matron (1984)
Flanders: Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (1994); Frizette (1994); Matron (1994); Spinaway (1994)
Folklore: Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (2005); Matron (2005); Adirondack (2005)
Gene’s Lady: Interborough (1986-87); Ballerina (1986); Correction (1986)
Golden Attraction: Frizette (1995); Matron (1995); Spinaway (1995); Schuylerville (1995)
Grand Canyon: Hollywood Futurity (1989); Norfolk (1989)
Grand Slam: Peter Pan (1998), Champagne (1997); Futurity (1997)
Grindstone: Kentucky Derby (1996)
Gulch: Breeders’ Cup Sprint (1988); Metropolitan H. (1988); Carter (1988)
Hail Atlantis: Santa Anita Oaks (1990)
Harlan: Vosburgh (1994)
Hennessy: Hopeful (1995)
High Brite: Paumonok (1989); Gravesend (1988); Sport Page (1988); A Phenomenon (1988); True North (1988); Whirlaway (1987)
High Yield: Blue Grass (2000); Fountain of Youth (2000); Hopeful (1999)
Honour and Glory: King’s Bishop (1996); Metropolitan H. (1996)
Is It True: Jim Dandy (1989); Riva Ridge (1989); Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (1988)
Island Whirl: Super Derby (1982); Woodward (1982)
Lady’s Secret: Breeders’ Cup Distaff (1986); Whitney (1986); Beldame (1985-86); Ruffian (1985-86); Maskette (1985-86); Shuvee (1986); Santa Margarita (1986); La Canada (1986); Ballerina (1985); Test (1985)
Landaluce: Hollywood Lassie (1982)
Life at the Top: Ladies (1986); Mother Goose (1986); Rare Perfume (1986)
Life’s Magic: Breeders’ Cup Distaff (1985); Shuvee (1985); Alabama (1984); Beldame (1984); Mother Goose (1984); Oak Leaf (1983)
Lucky Lucky Lucky: Kentucky Oaks (1984); Matron (1983)
Marlin: Arlington Million (1997); San Juan Capistrano (1997); Hollywood Derby (1996); Secretariat (1996)
Marfa: Santa Anita Derby (1983)
Miss Huntington: Apple Blossom (1983)
Muttering: Santa Anita Derby (1982)
North Sider: Vagrancy (1987); Maskette (1987); Apple Blossom (1987); Santa Margarita (1987)
Notebook: Hollie Hughes (1989); Best Turn (1988); Mike Lee (1988); Bertram F. Bongard (1987); Damon Runyon (1987);
On the Line: Carter (1989); San Fernando (1988)
Open Mind: Alabama (1989); Coaching Club American Oaks (1989); Mother Goose (1989); Acorn (1989); Kentucky Oaks (1989); Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (1988); Demoiselle (1988)
Orientate: Breeders’ Cup Sprint (2002); Forego (2002); Alfred G. Vanderbilt (2002)
Over All: Matron (1987); Spinaway (1987); Adirondack (1987); Schuylerville (1987)
Pancho Villa: King’s Bishop (1985); Bay Shore (1985)
Pearl City: Ballerina (1997); Prioress (1997)
River Memories: Flower Bowl Inv. (1989)
Roo Art: Suburban (1986); Iselin (1986); Nassau County (1986); Assault (1986)
Sacahuista: Breeders’ Cup Distaff (1987); Spinster (1987); Oak Leaf (1986); Schuylerville (1986)
Salt Lake: King’s Bishop (1992); Fall Highweight (1992); Tremont (1991); Hopeful (1991); Cowdin (1991)
Scorpion: Jim Dandy (2001)
Seaside Attraction: Kentucky Oaks (1990)
Serena’s Song: Hempstead (1996); Santa Maria (1996); Santa Monica (1996); Beldame (1995); Haskell (1995); Mother Goose (1995); Gazelle (1995); Santa Anita Oaks (1995); Las Virgenes (1995); Hollywood Starlet (1994); Oak Leaf (1994)
Sharp Cat: Acorn (1997); Santa Anita Oaks (1997); Las Virgenes (1997); Hollywood Starlet (1996); Matron (1996)
Sharp Dance: Beldame (1991)
Slew City Slew: Oaklawn H. (1989); Gulfstream Park H. (1989)
Spain: La Brea (2000); Breeders’ Cup Distaff (2000)
Steinlen: Hollywood Turf Cup (1990); Breeders’ Cup Mile (1989); Saratoga BC (1988); Daryl’s Joy (1989); Bernard Baruch (1989); Arlington Million (1989)
Stella Madrid: Acorn (1990); Frizette (1989); Matron (1989); Spinaway (1989)
Stellar Jayne: Gazelle (2004); Mother Goose (2004)
Success Express: Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (1987)
Surfside: Santa Anita Oaks (2000); Las Virgenes (2000); Hollywood Starlet (1999); Frizette (1999)
Tabasco Cat: Belmont Stakes (1994); Preakness (1994)
Tactical Cat: Hollywood Futurity (1998); Tremont (1998)
Talinum: Stuyvesant (1988); Florida Derby (1987)
Tank’s Prospect: Preakness (1985); Arkansas Derby (1985)
Thunder Gulch: Travers (1995); Belmont Stakes (1995); Kentucky Derby (1995); Florida Derby (1995); Remsen (1994)
Timber Country: Preakness (1995); Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (1994); Champagne (1994)
Twilight Agenda: Meadowlands Cup (1991)
Twilight Ridge: Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (1985); Astoria (1985)
Victory Speech: Strub (1997); Dwyer (1996); Empire Classic (1996)
War: Blue Grass (1987)
Winning Colors: Kentucky Derby (1988); Santa Anita Derby (1988); Santa Anita Oaks (1988)
Yet It’s True: De Francis Dash (1999); Riva Ridge (1999)
Yonaguska: Fall Highweight (2001); Sport Page (2001); Hopeful (2000)