Re: Owner sues trainer for drug positive/purse takeback (493 Views)
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sighthound (IP Logged)
Date: August 25, 2006 06:41PM
>> In the article you will see that Asmussen, indeed admitted to asking the vet >>to inject his horse with 2 drugs that are illegal, though he claims he didn’t >>know this. We’re supposed to believe that a major trainer doesn’t even bother >>to find out whether a substance is legal.
This might be his Eclipse Award year, hum?
And the vet says "I would never do that, I know it's illegal", "The client was billed for the two illegal injections, must have been administrative error", "We no longer do Mr. Asmussens track work".
I'm a vet, and this just sickens me. I would have loved to do track work, but I was warned my success would be intimately tied to my ethical values.
Everybody involved can express shock and surprise, shaking their head and wonder aloud how in the world the horse could possibly have come up positive, no, they have no idea - ignorance is bliss, no?