Asmussen suspended for 6 months

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Originally Posted by Alan07

By Mary Rampellini GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - The Lone Star Park board of stewards on Thursday suspended trainer Steve Asmussen six months and fined him $1,500.00 after one of his horses, Timber Trick, tested positive for a lidocaine metabolite in 2008.

"I know that I didn't do this," he said. "And I strongly believe that you know how important it is to avoid having something like this happen because you do not want to be in this sort of trouble over a 3-year-old maiden when you have access to the Curlins and Rachel Alexandras of the world, in which I have. And this sort of trouble jeopardizes that."
http://drf.com/news/article/105544.html

no, it doesn't. he had just come off his last six month suspension when he got curlin. no doubt his owners know JUST what they're getting when they hire the assman-and that includes that great sportsman, jess jackson.