Horse racing column: Trainer D. Wayne Lukas has been a breed apart

The sad news about D. Wayne Lukas this week sent the memory galloping across the half-century of the Hall of Fame trainer’s career, trying to identify the one horse, one race, one moment that sums him up.

You could play semantics and say the Lukas moment is the entire modern history of horse racing in North America, given all the trends he set, events he ruled and other prolific trainers he taught or inspired.

But unlike most most legendary trainers, Lukas isn’t easily identified with a single horse or achievement.