Racing Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, whose life included many different chapters – nearly all of which shaped today’s racing – died June 28 in Louisville, Ky. He was 89.
Thorpedo Anna put to rest any lingering doubts about her talents as a 4-year-old by thundering to her seventh stakes score in the $498,500 Grade 2 Fasig-Tipton Fleur de Lis Stakes June 28 at Churchill Downs.
Mindframe pressed a slow early pace then proved best in the lane to defeat a star-studded field in the $940,000 Stephen Foster Stakes going 1 1/8 miles at Churchill Downs June 28.
Is it talent; the raw ability that gives an athlete the ability to excel in their sport? Is it accomplishments; the record of achievements that their talent enables them to compile? Or is it something else entirely; an innate desire to perform as well as possible and give your all every time you compete?
When Mystik Dan rallied up the inside to impressively prevail in the May 31 Blame Stakes at Churchill Downs, exhales could be heard from Louisville, Ky., to Lexington.
