Steve Asmussen

In a sport where the slightest misstep can erase million-dollar dreams, predictability is good. Better, sometimes, than brilliant speed. Two-time Preakness-winning trainer Steve Asmussen chuckled Thursday morning when asked how Epicenter, the morning-line favorite for this year’s second jewel of the Triple Crown, was doing. The answer is always the same. “That’s the thing about Epicenter,” ...

When Steve Asmussen wakes up tomorrow, he still won't believe he lost the Kentucky Derby.  After failing 23 times to win the Run for the Roses, Asmussen felt confident that his prized colt Epicenter would break his curse. This was his year. He had the horse. He had the odds (5-to-1). He had his...

For more than 20 years, Barn 33 on the Churchill Downs backside was the place to be seen before the Kentucky Derby. Bob Baffert, the silver-haired trainer from California, was always prepared with a quip for reporters. Sunny, Baffert’s popular pony, might be tied up nearby for photos with fans.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The signs are all over the barn. Over 9,000 times a horse trained by Steve Asmussen has made a trip to the Winner’s Circle, but he has never had one earn it’s way to the Kentucky Derby Winner’s Circle, and like all great coaches, he remembers the losses.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Trainer Steve Asmussen is hoping for his first Kentucky Derby win Saturday. Epicenter topped the leaderboard for points coming into the race, and the Kentucky bred colt is a second favorite at 7-2. "Everything seems to be coming together perfectly," Asmussen told WDRB in the Morning...

If the Kentucky Oaks goes anything like Monday’s Kentucky Oaks draw for Steve Asmussen, he’s going to have a good Friday. Though the trainer of 3-year-old filly Echo Zulu didn’t end the Oaks draw with the favorite — that distinction went to Nest and trainer Todd Pletcher — the early part of Asmussen’s afternoon was a breeze.

Winless in the Kentucky Derby, trainer Steve Asmussen says he briefly experienced the thrill of victory. It came in 2011, when Nehro took the lead from Shackleford entering the stretch and Asmussen thought he was home. “I didn’t see Animal Kingdom coming,” Asmussen said of the eventual winner. “I literally...

Steve Asmussen has trained many outstanding horses in his Hall of Fame and Eclipse Award-winning career. Still, he was visibly emotional after Epicenter won the Grade II, $1 million Louisiana Derby on Saturday at the Fair Grounds. “It's because I'm 0-for-26 in the Kentucky Derby, and he has a great...

NEW YORK — Hall of Fame horse trainer Steve Asmussen must pay $610,000 in back pay, damages and penalties following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that found he underpaid 170 employees at the Saratoga and Belmont race tracks. The Texas-based Asmussen, who finished the season strong at Saratoga Race...

The wins, the great horses, the graded stakes wins. Make no doubt, thoroughbred trainer Steve Asmussen was destined for greatness in horse racing. Growing up learning from his father, Keith, who was a jockey and trainer and his mother, Marilyn, also a trainer, Asmussen's life in horse racing was a foregone conclusion, it would eventually lead him to be one of the greatest trainers of all-time.

Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen recently broke the North American record for victories when Stellar Tap won a race at New York's Saratoga Race Course. That gave him 9,446 wins to break the mark set by Dale Baird, who trained for 46 years before he was killed in a 2007 car accident.