PETA undercover in Asmussen's barn - Whoa!

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

So what is your solution? That he be banned from the game for employing a foul-mouthed assistant who intimated that they use a legal drug on an undisclosed number of horses? For offenses which occurred years ago for which he has served the suspension handed to him in that jurisdiction?

The owner, if he cared about the good of the sport, would have sent the horses elsewhere. Of course, he won't due that, fearing about the timing when they invariably "crash" after about three weeks away from the Asmussen barn's $1500/month medication program. (I am not suggesting that it is illegal, but it is part of the "over-medication" issue that is part of the current debate.)

Let's not kid ourselves that everything in the PETA video is completely benign. The part about putting a gel cast on a horse to "fool" the state vet about a horse that he scratched (to Blasi's dismay) is pretty bad stuff.