He will appeal it Tim. This is such nonsense that it makes my blood boil. There are about 50 guys out there training that I could guess with a high degree of certainty are using something and they rarely if ever get caught. When they do get caught they get a handslap.
Then you have three guys who between the three of them saddle like 5000 starters a year(I'm not kidding) who get one postive for mepiv and they get federal cases. Its a joke really.
Tim Asmussen is able to manage that number of horses because he has an eidetic(photographic) memory. If you ask him about any one of the 500 horses he has under his care he can tell you all about the horse without having to look it up, thats how smart he is. He also makes a lot of money. Do you really believe that he went to great lengths to "juice" an ulra cheap claimer in Lousiana? Do you really believe that a guy like Todd who makes millions went to great lengths to "juice" up a 75 claimer(thats what the horse was who got him his postive)? Do you really think that Dutrow went to great lengths to insure that Farmer Jake(the 30 claimer that got him his caine postive, the other one was clenbuterol in a 14 claimer) would win?
The funny thing is that all of these guys compete at the grade one level with horses where there is supertesting and surveillance and they win those races all the time. IF they are indeed juicing why do they not test positive in races like the Travers or BCC or Met Mile when their horses win? Its just absurd. When you saddle that many horses there is going to be occasional vet error, its a numbers game.