Cheats!

[miff]

Passero, an Italian, what elae

[FrankD.]

Was it Passero?

[TGAB]

Frank Passero Jr.

[TGJB]

Pat Byrne, 15 in a row at CD the year he had Allday (and both 2yo champs), 97. We broke the string with a horse called Connecting Terms.

[FrankD.]

rainer Allegedly Ordered Pepper Rub Put On Horses
March 17, 1996|By DAVE JOSEPH Staff Writer
HALLANDALE - — Calling it \"a ruthless act ... an unconscionable and despicable act of animal cruelty,\" the Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering served trainer Frank Passero with an administrative complaint Saturday for allegedly ordering a groom to rub a substance containing cayenne pepper around his horses\' rectums and genitals to make them run faster at Gulfstream Park.

Passero, who this year won a record 14 consecutive races at Gulfstream and has never had one of his horses come back with a positive test result for an illegal substance, denied using pepper improperly.

\"That\'s an outright lie,\" he said.

Passero said he has used the substance, which he called a muscle rub, on horses\' legs.

\"The muscle rub they\'re accusing me of using here is no different than Whitey Ford using Ben Gay,\" Passero said.

Passero, 62, a native of Canada, was served the complaint by State Steward Walter Blum at approximately 1:30 p.m. in the horsemen\'s bookkeeper\'s office at Gulfstream. Groom Abraham Siddo, the groom who alleges Passero ordered him to apply the pepper, had been served with a complaint Saturday morning.

Passero and Siddo have 21 days from Saturday to request a formal hearing before the division to show just cause why their pari-mutuel occupational licenses should not be suspended or revoked or why they shouldn\'t be fined.

According to the complaints, Siddo and two other grooms who work for Passero were seen applying an unknown substance in or around the genitals of five horses trained by Passero between Feb. 9 and Feb. 26. The grooms were said to have been observed applying the substance by agents of the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau and investigators with the Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering. The substance was allegedly applied at Gulfstream\'s staging area, where horses are brought before going to the paddock.

[miff]

Difference with Ziadie is that many are claims that move way up off his magic....Oscar like!

[FrankD.]

Come on Mike,

When Oscar was asked what he saw in Shifty Shiek whom he claimed for 35,000 even though he was winless for the year he said \"he had a good mother\" !!!

5 days after the claim he won by a dozen at the Spa just missing a track record and a month later nearly upset Slew O\' Gold in the Woodward.

[miff]

Oscar hung around the park at Belmont with a pretty large group of us prior to his mercurial rise to fame. A tough Jewish guy that hung with us got in Oscars face one day about a ridiculous move up. Oscar defiantly said \" I put dee blinka\"

[FrankD.]

I have to conserve my posts Mike, I think I got about 7 years here X 5 and I\'m in double digits today. There might be some real juicy stuff later?

Like an idiot on a beautiful day  I spent some of it at the tele and the rest in the house betting horses! It might as well be below zero!

[T Severini]

HP Wrote:
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> This is amazing.  
>
> In the weeks and months before the AFC
> Championship Game, McNally periodically exchanged
> text messages with the Patriots equipment
> assistant primarily responsible for the
> preparation of the Patriots game balls, John
> Jastremski. In a number of those text messages,
> McNally and Jastremski discussed the air pressure
> of Patriots game balls, Tom Brady\'s unhappiness
> with the inflation level of Patriots game balls,
> Jastremski\'s plan to provide McNally with a
> "needle" for use by McNally, and McNally\'s
> requests for "cash" and sneakers together with the
> "needle" to be provided by Jastremski. A sports
> ball inflation needle is a device that can be used
> to inflate a football (if attached to an air pump)
> or release air from a football (if inserted alone
> into a ball).\"


Its the same principle........stick a needle in it and you get better production out of it. How can that be cheating?

[shanahan]

names?  ***

[P-Dub]

FrankD. Wrote:
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> No whats his name in 97 or 98 at Gulf won 16 or 17
> in a row, he was putting cayenne pepper on their
> testicles; Frank some Spanish name can\'t recall
> it.

One of them a full brother to Pants On Fire

[Dick Powell]

Wish one of these former trainers would speak up and name names. Lance Armstrong went down when Floyd Landis turned him in. If my professional life was on the line, I would sing like a canary.
Dick

[alydar61]

Yes. Frank Passero.

[alydar61]

Favorite Trick. Horse of the Year. What a joke!