Hall of Fame thoroughbred trainer D. Wayne Lukas, 89, has returned home under hospice care after a hospitalization in Louisville, according to a statement from his family this past weekend. A towering figure in horse racing for more than four decades, Lukas will not return to training.

The Hall of Famer, who has entered hospice at 89, won so many big races with so many horses that it’s hard to identify him with just one.

Across the breadth of the last 15 years, as Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse trainer D. Wayne Lukas aged into his ninth decade of life and yet remarkably continued to contest and occasionally win some of the sport's biggest races,