Hey Sarah,

I'm in Long Island, NY. Where are you? When I was a junior rider, I was offered jobs as exercise rider at the track, but my folks wouldn't allow it My friend was track photographer, and we had a family friend who was a small-time racehorse trainer (a quality one too...too bad it never worked out for him). I also did an internship at the track with the track veterinarian in college when I thought I wanted to be a vet. Got offered a lot of nice racehorses who just weren't into running. (One nice colt was offered to me for free by the trainer!) Unfortunately, being a teenager, I didn't really have the finances to restart them myself. But I worked with them for my trainer who would walk me through how to train them in reschooling (he never got on them) and then he'd sell them. Several turned out to be really nice as children's hunters and jumpers, but that's what we were working on then. Now I'd like to get back to restarting and retraining and this time look for dressage and eventing prospects. But I'd probably wind up not being able to part with them anyway.