"Wayne Lukas reinvented the game," Lanny Kohnhorst, the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association's Director of Horsemen's Relations.

D. Wayne Lukas, who was raised on a 10-acre farm outside Antigo, Wisconsin, had recently been hospitalized with a severe blood infection.

"Wayne Lukas reinvented the game," Lanny Kohnhorst, the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association's Director of Horsemen's Relations.

As pioneers moved west and livestock numbers grew, one major problem emerged—there were no fences. Animals often wandered off ... His early fencing involved wooden rails with metal spikes—a design ...