NEW YORK - In his Hall of Fame career, D. Wayne Lukas has trained18 Eclipse Award winners, won 13 Breeders' Cup races and saddled thewinners of four Kentucky Derbies and five Preakness Stakes.
He also won three Belmont Stakes in a row, from 1994-96, and thatexperience could work to his advantage on Saturday, when he sendsoutCharismatic in his bid to become only the 12th horse in history tosweep the Triple Crown.
"The first couple of times I tried it, I came away very, veryhumbled and very, very distressed over the Belmont Stakes," saidLukas, whose first Belmont starter, Preakness winner Codex, finishedseventh in the 1 1/2-mile race in 1980. "And then we had a …
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