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D. Wayne Lukas says the passing years have had a calming effect. The Hall of Fame trainer turns 75 on Sept. 2. “As you get older, you roll with things. I’m a lot more relaxed,” he said. That’s a good thing, because a cool head was needed when one of his vans broke down in a McDonald’s parking lot. Told it would take hours for a replacement truck to arrive, Lukas reconfigured the stalls on the functioning truck and loaded the four race horses aboard. It created an unexpected show for the diners under the golden arches as they watched the horses milling about. “They thought we were going to increase the quality of their hamburgers,” Lukas said. “We really didn’t have that in mind.” The Associated Press
