Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas has been training thoroughbreds for nearly 50 years and this year marks his 46th summer bringing horses to Saratoga. Since 2020, he has seen a revitalization to his career winning the Kentucky Oaks with Secret Oath in 2022 and this year he won a record seventh Preakness Stakes with MyRacehorse’s Seize the Grey.

Seize the Grey, by Arrogate, was purchased by MyRacehorse out of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling Sale for $300,000 from the Mill Ridge Sales consignment. He broke his maiden at Saratoga last July and looks to return to the Spa winner’s circle in the Grade 2, $500,000 Jim Dandy on July 27.

Lukas said he hopes to use the race as a prep for the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers on August 24.

“I think we will go Jim Dandy to the Travers. He was recently syndicated to stud to Gainesway, so the Travers is a real big deal for us a lot of incentive to win that,” Lukas said.

Most recently seventh in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes on June 8 here, Seize the Grey has been training steadily over the Oklahoma training track. He worked a bullet five-furlongs in 59 seconds flat on July 9 in his first work since the Belmont Stakes.