sentences:  They now operate El Primero Training Center and the Asmussen Horse Center, a breeding and sales operation, both in Laredo.The family was close-knit; Asmussen's grandmother, Helen M. Asmussen, died at the age of eighty-three, on Mother's Day, 2007.Asmussen attended her funeral instead of going to the post position draw for the Preakness Stakes that he later won with Curlin.