Lukas trained thousands of thoroughbred horses, and 51 ran in 31 different Kentucky Derbys. He won the race four times.

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who saddled four Kentucky Derby winners among his 15 winners of US Triple Crown races, has died at he age of 89, his family said Sunday.He saddled his most recent Triple Crown race winner last year with Seize the Grey in the Preakness Stakes -- his seventh Preakness triumph.

Lukas won 15 Triple Crown races across his six-decade career, the second-most only to Bob Baffert. He won the Kentucky Derby four times and has a record-tying 20 wins in the Breeders' Cup World Championships. He won 4,987 documented Thoroughbred races, and his horses have won more than $310 million in more than 30,600 starts.