Asmussen suspended for 6 months

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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."
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