Asmussen: Lone Star positive
 

He got a positive with Timber Trick in a 7 length MSW win at Lone Star.

It's really a shame to see such fine upstanding trainers as Dutrow, Jones, and Asmussen all get positives in less than a week.

Larry is the only one to me that is an "upstanding" trainer.. The other two are used to these infractions.

Nobody's perfect.

Is somebody deliberately trying to make this the worst PR year in the history of the game? If so, they're doing a dang fine job at it. The timing of all this is unbelievable...

i am shocked....SHOCKED...that assman and dutrow would both get drug positives. i mean, they're not stupid!







:rolleyes:

This is some really serious ****. It's getting so bad that I can't concentrate on handicapping, what with all these positives and all the PVAL news, etc.

:rolleyes:

I wouldn't wanna be involved in a game with bad PR, would I?

McGee, DRF: http://www.drf.com/news/article/95805.html

It's a shame more fine and upstanding trainers haven't tested positive, at this stage I would be more surprised of a negative test result than a positive.

Yeah, it really is terrible seeing this squeaky clean game tarnished by the evil doings of " somebody. "

Asmussen may be looking at 6 months for this one. This is a serious one. This is similar to the one he got nailed for last time. It is the same kind of drug.

maybe his hand slipped

Mepivocaine?

All I'm saying is that it's been a crappier media year than most. I feel like I've been in permanent damage control mode since May. :rolleyes:

It's not like this is anything new for Asmussen.

This time it is lidocaine which is in the same family as mepivocaine or novacaine. These are all local anesthetics that deaden pain.

Right, but the problem is that once again racing is forced to be reactive because they have been far short of proactive on the drug issue for WAY too long.

But isn't lidocaine considered lower than mepivocaine?

I sure could use some lidocaine right now. This cruel witch hunt by PETA is bringing me down.

I don't know if it's considered any less potent than mepivocaine. I think they are both considered Class II drugs. The article says that the recommended penalty in most states is 6 months.

I'll agree to that.

Now pass me a hit of lidocaine to get me through the rest of the week!

Thanks.

Mepivacaine lasts a bit longer than lidocaine after local injection. However, lidocaine can also be used intravenously to relieve pain and correct some heart problems (in fact, a private vet copped to "accidentally" administering lidocaine instead of lasix that resulted in Jerry Hollendorfer getting cited with a lidocaine positive a couple of months ago). I don't think mepivacaine is used IV for reasons of toxicity.

I wonder if they checked to see if the Hollendorfer horse had lasix in his system. If he did, then the vet's explanation was hogwash.

The most recent trainers of the Kentucky Derby, and Breeders Cup Classic...on the same day?

Mixed that one up, actually. It was a Jeff Bonde horse that tested for lidocaine. The Hollendorfer horse (the positives were announced the same day--gotta love NoCal, do they have anything but supertrainers up there?) "only" had the sedative, xylazine, in its system.

Lidocaine instead of Lasix.......by accident? They got away with that story?

It made more sense than Pletcher suggesting his horse tested for mepivacaine a couple years back because the horse in the adjacent stall (who apparently was being blocked) coughed and aerosolized the stuff, which of course was breathed in by the horse in question, Tales of Glory.

Also, at one point, when Jeff Mullins got his mepivacaine positive (its almost like a rite of passage ain't it?) it was blamed on a groom taking out a horse entered to race instead of a lame horse the vet was supposed to block (never mind that any diligent vet would have trotted the horse first to ensure the horse was unsound before proceeding--then again, who's to say that the runner was sound?).

Scott Blasi has the best assistant trainer job going.

Here's Curlin, Scott, have fun for the next 6 months with him.

you get out what you put in....


the reciprocity that states show when one sits a jockey, or when one sits a trainer, should be carried through in that a positive in one state counts as a positive on the trainer, period. this joke that dutrow is facing a first-timers penalty in kentucky has got to stop.
criminals, other than trainers, who commit a crime in one state, do not see that crime disappear from their record if they move to another state. the same thing should apply here!

just think of the press overseas should curlin go to the arc--with his asst trainer due to the head trainer getting a drug pos.

[quote=RolloTomasi]It made more sense than Pletcher suggesting his horse tested for mepivacaine a couple years back because the horse in the adjacent stall (who apparently was being blocked) coughed and aerosolized the stuff, which of course was breathed in by the horse in question, Tales of Glory.

That is the single most ridiculous explanation I've ever heard.

And Larry Jones finished 2nd in both races with Hard Spun and Eight Belles.

Don't you think you are a little over the top with your "criminal" comparisions? I mean, just a little???

no.

my point is that i find it absolutely ridiculous that dutrow is being treated as a first time offender, and is being given a first offender suspension in ky. if we had a nat'l body, he'd be treated as the repeat offender he is.

jeremy rose won't be able to ride anywhere while serving the six month suspension given him in delaware. when asmussen was serving his six month suspension last winter and spring, he wasn't allowed to train anywhere in the country-so why aren't drug violations 'carried over' from one jurisdiction to the next, such as in dutrows case?

if he's had past class 2 violations, this should count as #8 for instance, not as a first offense since it's his first in kentucky. it's far from his first violation.

At least Dutrow isn't making any excuses. He says he has "no problem" with the suspension.

http://www.drf.com/news/article/95828.html

no problem? then why is he appealing if it's no problem?

and isn't it ironic.....assmussen was on a six month suspension when curlin started his career, and now it looks like he'll be suspended six months while curlin finishes his career.

lidocane and some baking soda touched to your tongue will make your whole tongue and face numb:eek:

the other day my doctor cut through my side , and it didn't even hurt after he shot it up with lidocane.

what the hell does a horse who theraputically needs lidocaine have any business running within that month?

Up the ante a little guys, stuff like this is bad for business

Here is your answer straight from the horse's mouth:

"I don't have an issue with their ruling," Dutrow said from New York. "I'm only appealing because I need to be with these horses. I've got some really good horses right now, and I can't afford to be away from them for that kind of time."

so, it is a problem. guy ought to be a politician.

I have no idea about the particulars of this case but lidocaine is found in over the counter creams and gels. Steve Penrod, who is the last trainer that would ever do anything illegal, got a lidocaine positive a few years ago because the groom had used an aloe vera cream that had lidocaine in it on a filly's heels.