Hall of Fame thoroughbred trainer D. Wayne Lukas, 89, has returned home under hospice care after a hospitalization in Louisville, according to a statement from his family this past weekend. A towering figure in horse racing for more than four decades, Lukas will not return to training.

I t was early May 1994, and D. Wayne Lukas had been on a brutal run. The erstwhile king of thoroughbred trainers hadn’t won a Grade I stakes race in more than two years, had los

D. Wayne Lukas’ horses have been transferred to assistant trainer Sebastian “Bas” Nicholl, who has been part of Lukas’ team since 2002.