Steve Asmussen, currently the country's leading trainer in money and races won, was slapped with a six-month suspension and a $1,500 fine by the Lone Star Park stewards on July 16 for a positive urine test that contained a lidocaine metabolite in a horse he trained in 2008.
Asmussen’s attorneys immediately filed an appeal with the Texas Racing
Commission, and a stay was granted late in the afternoon of July 16.
After the stay was granted, Maggi Moss, one of Asmussen’s attorneys,
said that the 2008 Eclipse Award-winning trainer would “fight this as
long as it takes to get to the truth.”
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