GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - The Lone Star Park board of stewards on Thursday suspended trainer Steve Asmussen six months and fined him $1,500 for a 2008 positive test for a lidocaine metabolite in a horse he trains.
WHEN IS THIS TOOL,
Milk Shake Mullins &
Dutrow going to be suspened
for years, not months?
I play Monmouth a few times a week and I don't really understand why you would say that.
And it's a good point about the size of his operation. My friend is a trainer in the NJ/NY/PA area. He has between 50 and 100 horses (not a big operation at all). Most of them are at Philly Park, where he does most of his running, but he also runs at Monmouth, Meadowlands, NY tracks, even as far as Mountaineer and Laurel. One time a track official found cocaine in one of his feed buckets, and he had a hearing and was facing a suspension. It was at some track that he doesn't go to, but sends his people to when he runs there (I think it was Laurel, if I remember). The point of mentioning this is that my friend has a relatively small number of horses and he can't control everything that goes on. For guys like Asmussen, Pletcher, Lake, etc. it is an impossible task.
I play Monmouth a few times a week and I don't really understand why you would say that.
And it's a good point about the size of his operation. My friend is a trainer in the NJ/NY/PA area. He has between 50 and 100 horses (not a big operation at all). Most of them are at Philly Park, where he does most of his running, but he also runs at Monmouth, Meadowlands, NY tracks, even as far as Mountaineer and Laurel. One time a track official found cocaine in one of his feed buckets, and he had a hearing and was facing a suspension. It was at some track that he doesn't go to, but sends his people to when he runs there (I think it was Laurel, if I remember). The point of mentioning this is that my friend has a relatively small number of horses and he can't control everything that goes on. For guys like Asmussen, Pletcher, Lake, etc. it is an impossible task.
[/Quote Monmouth Park is fast approaching the lofty status of such tracks as Mountaineer and Delaware Park as havens for cheaters. If you play there you better have a good handle on the move-up guys, not to mention how the pools get distorted after the gates open...solid 3-1 shots are 8/5 before the turn.
As far as the super trainers, they better have a good people working for them as they obviously cant be at every operation every day for every race.
Lukas
I do not disagree that he is not a factor anymore at all. What I stated was much of his success can be attributed to the team behind him.
With your logic you could also write ...
Jordan
Gretzky
Mantle
Sanders
Lukas
Yes...as much as I like D.Wayne, I think his problem is the same became somewhat the same thing that is happening a bit to Pletcher and is starting to happen to Assy.....they have way to many horses and not enough good underlings to take care of the barns.
D.Wayne started going down hill after his success in the mid-90's and all of a sudden his stable doubled.
Hell, Pletcher had 40 horses at Arlington two years ago. Now he has none there. I think they just can't get enough good assistants.
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