KHRC clears Asmussen: PETA 'claims' unsubstanciated

[skyfire]

PETA libeled and slandered Steve Asmussen and his operation - I hope he has legal recourse whereby his legal fees are repaid by PETA. He should be in the Hall of Fame.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by skyfire

PETA libeled and slandered Steve Asmussen and his operation - I hope he has legal recourse whereby his legal fees are repaid by PETA. He should be in the Hall of Fame.

It's no surprise that they ignored subpoena requests for the unedited videos and all of the other proof they claimed to have.

[DaTruth]

Shame on PETA. Shame on Joe Drape for pushing the story because it fit his agenda. Shame on those in the industry who suggested Asmussen essentially disappear on Derby Day so as not to put the sport under a cloud of suspicion.

[jnunan4759]

Curious timing of this. I think it's coordinated, they let things blow over this year, pull him off the ballot and maybe will put Steve on the ballot next year or the year after. Fishy.

I'm not real happy the way KY and NY handled this. Entirely too long. This has come at great cost to Steve Asmussen. He's lost big clients and been publicly disparaged in a year he was up for the HOF. He has handled this all with class.

The only thing we learned is that Scott Blasi has a potty-mouth and that Nehro had bad feet.

This was a "hit-piece" and PETA didn't come up with very much. I think the way they did it was very suspect.

However, they screwed Steve Asmussen and accomplished nothing, corrected nothing and accomplished nothing. But that's OK.

There was nothing to accomplish, nothing to correct and nothing to accomplish. But that's OK, too.

The horse business is 99.99% ethical. I've been in it for years. you do have some nasties, as you do in anything in life. However, most in this business work hard for the benefit of the horse. Mostly at their financial disfortune.

I've had many horses who just sucked my wallet. I've re-homed almost all of my horses, except the one's that got claimed. Cost me a bunch of money, but thought it was my duty. I actually bought back some that were claimed and re-homed them. They ended up as hunters, jumpers and other stuff. They liked it.

i kind of treated my horses like people. They were all different. I've liked all of them. And I've always tried to do the best by them.

[jnunan4759]

Funny. I go to Saratoga every year and a good friend of mine stays in a B&B on Union Ave. I used to hang with him and we'd stay at the bar and I got to hang out with Drape. He seemed OK, we we're talking horses. My buddy told me he won like a Pulitzer Prize or something, not sure about that. He seemed OK. Seemed like a horseplayer.

I'm from Philly and don't read the NYT. However, I started reading his stuff and really turned on him. I thought he might be a great horse racing journalist from what people were telling me. I'm thinking Joe Hirsch or something. But nothing is farther from the truth.

He is no friend of racing, I've only found him to be a friend of Joe Drape.