Legendary trainer rushed to hospital with ‘worsening' serious illness as horses urgently moved to assistant

LEGENDARY horse trainer D Wayne Lukas has been rushed to hospital with a 'worsening' serious illness.
The iconic US handler, praised for revolutionising racing in the States, has urgently transferred all his horses to his British assistant.
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Lukas, 89, trained some of the biggest names in the sport including previous Horses of the Year Charismatic and Criminal Type.
He won the Kentucky Derby four times and dominated the Triple Crown races, winning six in a row in the mid-Nineties.
His incredible career has seen his amass prize money winnings of £225million from a jaw-dropping 4,967 winners.
Lukas is too ill to train again and his final winner came at Churchill Downs, home of the Derby, earlier this month.
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