The following spring, the talented colt won both the Preakness and the Belmont. Burrage set him up with a job transporting documents from one bank branch to another and inspecting construction projects financed with loans from the banks. Words tumble out of his mouth, more in 20 minutes than his father might have said to a stranger in a week.In the first years after Jeff’s accident, both before and after the divorce, Brady spent long hours with his father. “She sat me down and explained that he had changed, and really couldn’t carry on a loving relationship. Looking at what could have been . “There was a money situation that had changed and it was just very rough. Marriage with D. Wayne Lukas since 1998; Online dictionaries and encyclopedias with entries for Laura Pinelli. “I think he has an excellent chance of being his old self.” (When this quote was read back to him in September 2013, Caton said, “I don’t believe I would ever have said, ‘His old self.’ I would have been keenly aware that patients often have personality changes.”) Linda Lukas was far more enthusiastic.

Minutes before the call of “Riders Up!” in he crowded Churchill Downs paddock, Wayne told Brady, “Go give Gary [Stevens] a leg up on Oxbow.” The two Lukas horses were stalled too far apart for Wayne to leg up both of his riders. I’m still trying to get there, and for however long I train horses, he will always be my standard of excellence.”- “Wayne Lukas’s attention to detail and his ability to manage the people in his employ as well as the horses in his care made it possible for him to successfully operate multiple divisions of his stable at many different racetracks across the country. The children have their father back. Lukas’s miraculous improvement leveled off shortly after the spring of 1994.

“We had had very few casualties in our lives,” says Linda. He did not become his old self; he became, in a real sense, somebody else. And I have more love shown to me by my daughter, Kelly, than I can describe. He struggles similarly with crowds and noise, both of which were a problem at Brady’s Air Force Academy graduation in the school’s football stadium.Lukas doesn’t remember the accident, which is common among brain injury victims. There is more to life than money and perceived success.”He flips the card back into the box, almost dismissing the moment, and asks if I need directions for the two-hour drive back to Oklahoma City. It is a nice home, purchased by his father six years ago for $200,000, the only home on the street that is surrounded by a three-rail white fence of the type seen undulating for endless miles in the rolling green horse country of Kentucky, separating one breeding farm from another. Atoka was a place where Jeff Lukas could become comfortable. HORSE TRAINER D. Wayne Lukas felt much better yesterday than Sunday, a day after he was taken to Aria Health (Torresdale Campus) with several heart-related issues that manifested themselves on Friday and got much worse Saturday. The divorce. Jeff had begun working for his father when he was in elementary school and Wayne was a high school teacher and basketball coach in Wisconsin who trained quarter horses out West on summer vacations. “She went down a tough road, became addicted to meth, had two children under bad circumstances.” Sara died in December 2006 at age 28; Burrage says she hanged herself.

Burrage, who was also one of Jeff’s closest friends, helped secure a place for him at Padua Stables, a breeding farm in Summerfield, Fla., owned by a client of Lukas’s, Satish Sanan. Caton knew “virtually none” of his patients before their injuries. “I miss it, still,” she says. He never left the game, however, and this year he won the Preakness with Oxbow and the Travers with Will Take Charge, who will also be running the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday. (In numerous speeches, Wayne Lukas has called those first steps “the greatest athletic achievement I’ve ever seen. Lukas's immaculate house is like a racing museum, with mementos and trophies from his former life scattered throughout. “You want it to work so bad,” she says. This accident changed my whole life.’ ” Yet those moments are also rare.Sitting in the recliner now, he asks for no sympathy. I’m where I’m supposed to be.”Linda Lukas-Cosgrove remembers the first months after the accident, when Jeff made giant strides, then progressively smaller ones and in the end no strides at all. “We were sitting there and I said to Jeff, ‘We are so lucky to be blessed like this.’ ”Two decades later, Linda Lukas-Cosgrove, 50, pauses as she tells this story, then adds wearily, “I guess I should have knocked on wood.” She raps the knuckles of her right hand three times on her kitchen table.That’s one description. Sermon on the Mount is merely a distillation of the way Wayne moves through his daily life. “Hard for both of us, I think. He raced his pony at the local fairgrounds and at age eight began buying, selling, and training horses. They had met one morning when Jeff and his father went into the ski shop near the Santa Anita racetrack to buy parkas for chilly mornings at work. Follow along with analysis in your inbox throughout the playoffs. Long ago Lukas thrived on the comfort of detail and discipline, and that quality has survived the brain injury that changed him forever. “He was so good with my clientele. Brady was aware of the accident, but only superficially.

“Jeff was a cold person before the accident,” says Don McWhirter, a friend from California who remains in close touch with him. Darren Carroll for Sports Illustrated, Videos by Bill Frakes/Sports Illustrated and Laura Heald for Sports Illustrated

. “In all of this,” he says, “there has to be a place for Jeff.

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