Just before Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas turned 80, he spoke to a group of reporters outside of his barn at Churchill Downs and he talked about eventually slowing down, training fewer horses and maybe someday even retiring.Well, that was 10 years ago.Lukas is now closing in on 90 (his birthday is Sept. 2) and he맥스카지노�s still going strong. The trainer with 15 Triple Crown winners still gets on a pony and goes to the track each day. His stable is larger now than it has been in recent years and most importantly - Lukas is back in the Kentucky Derby.American Promise will be Lukas맥스카지노� 51st starter, and the race on Saturday will be the 31st time that he has a starter in the race. Lukas won the Derby with Winning Colors in 1988, Thunder Gulch in 1995, Grindstone in 1996 and Charismatic in 1999. His last starter was Just Steel, who finished 17th last year.맥스카지노�It맥스카지노�s always good to be back,맥스카지노� Lukas said. 맥스카지노�The business has really been good. I don맥스카지노�t have to worry about that at all. I remember that told my wife at 89, 90, maybe what we should do is just buy three or four for our own account and we can just have fun. We did that but it got out of hand. We have more horses than we have had in a few years, and we have some really good horses in the barn.맥스카지노�Lukas has been a fixture around the Kentucky Derby since 1981 when he finished third with Partez. Lukas is tied for third all-time with four Derby winners, and his 51 starters are second only behind his former assistant Todd Pletcher.맥스카지노�Mentally, Wayne is as sharp as he was when he was 50, back when we won that first Kentucky Derby back 1988 together,맥스카지노� Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens said. 맥스카지노�This colt, American Promise is very good and he has the right guy training him. Wayne is still so meticulous with everything that he does and that hasn맥스카지노�t changed, that won맥스카지노�t change. Wayne has still got it at 89.맥스카지노�The oldest winning trainer in Derby history was Art Sherman, who was 77 when California Chrome won the roses. There맥스카지노�s no record of an older trainer to start a horse, but Lukas did it last year at 88. Two-time Derby-winning trainer Charlie Whittingham was 83 when he started Corker in 1993.Earlier this week, Lukas said he doesn맥스카지노�t worry about his age.But Lukas was asked if he felt like he inspired people with his work ethic still at his age and he said he hears things 맥스카지노�all the time맥스카지노� about it from people who are just fans or other trainers all the way to people who 맥스카지노�have had unbelievable achievements.맥스카지노�He said he speaks with Hall of Fame football coach Bill Parcells all the time and he맥스카지노�ll ask 맥스카지노�did you ride today?맥스카지노� I맥스카지노�ll say, 맥스카지노�yeah and he맥스카지노�ll get right into it.맥스카지노� Parcells is the only coach in NFL history to ever lead four different teams to the playoffs and three different teams to a conference championship game.맥스카지노�It comes up a lot more lately,맥스카지노� Lukas said of the age question. 맥스카지노�It맥스카지노�s fine. It맥스카지노�s not my major concern every morning, but it comes up.맥스카지노�Lukas맥스카지노� stable hasn맥스카지노�t been as strong in recent years. He had at least one starter every year in the Derby from 1981 to 2000, but this is just his seventh Derby since 2010. He did win the Preakness last year with Seize the Grey after winning the same race in 2013 with Oxbow.Now, he wants to try and add another Derby trophy.Lukas said American Promise was 맥스카지노�number one pick맥스카지노� at the 2023 Keeneland September Yearling Sale and he맥스카지노�s been high on him from the start. A big, striking son of Triple Crown winner Justify, American Promise raced five times before breaking his maiden at Oaklawn Park on Dec. 29.He then finished sixth in the Southwest Stakes and fifth in the Risen Star Stakes before winning the Virginia Derby by more than seven lengths.맥스카지노�He's had a really, really good month,맥스카지노� Lukas said of the colt. 맥스카지노�He isn't three yet. So he's, he's just growing into that frame, he's a 17-hand horse, you know, and it takes him a little while, but he is responding really well to this, very well. He, he's developing very good at the right time.맥스카지노�Oh, and don맥스카지노�t think Lukas is stopping anytime soon. He might be closing in on 90, but he맥스카지노�s still getting good horses.And more of them.맥스카지노�I told my chief clientele, I said, 맥스카지노�Think about this a little bit when these yearlings are up and in the program I'll be 92,맥스카지노� Lukas said. 맥스카지노�So I said, you may want to back up, maybe not buy as many. You may want to split them up and go to some other people. I said, you should think about that. And they said, No, don't worry about that. They went right in and bought 18 head. The other thing that happened is our business the last six months had just taken off. 맥스카지노�I want to stay in one barn, 40 stalls but we have run the red light on that. We are up to about 52 or 53 now. It맥스카지노�s still what I love to do. Sometimes I don맥스카지노�t want to leave the sofa, but once I get to the track and get on that horse, I am good.맥스카지노�