Backside:= Also sometimes called the backstretch (see "backstretch", below), an area with restricted access, usually behind the track, where the stables and residential living areas for staff are located.[7]

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Like many other grooms at the Golden Gate Fields racetrack in the east Bay Area, Miguel Rodriguez lives in the shadows of the stables. Along with his wife, Olivia, he sleeps in a bunk bed in a drafty tack room redolent of straw and manure, just around the corner from the horses he skillfully and devotedly tends.

The lives of workers on “the backside” of the track - Latinos from Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador and Peru - are anonymous and grueling. Theirs is a seven-day-a-week job that can begin at 3:30 or 4 in the morning and end with the last race at 6 p.m. The grooms, foremen and “hot walkers” - known as backstretch workers - collectively feed, bathe and exercise 1,100 or so thoroughbreds. They saddle them, bandage their legs, apply liniment to sore muscles, walk them to cool them down after a race, shovel their manure and lay their straw beds.

It is a low-paying occupation largely without vacations, holidays and sick days, though those who live at the track, with its communal bathroom and shower facilities, do not pay rent. Backstretch work carries considerable physical risk, from kicks or bites from the horses to broken ribs and torn rotator cuffs.

In a health study published last year, anthropologist Heide Castaneda of the University of South Florida noted high rates of alcohol and drug use and significant barriers to treatment, among them low wages and poor housing and work conditions. Backstretch workers are paid by individual trainers to tend to their horses, meaning they could lose income if a horse gets injured or moves elsewhere.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/15/golden-gate-fields...


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Backstretch refers to either:
(1) the portion of an oval racetrack on the far side of the grandstand, parallel to the homestretch, or,
(2) particularly in North America, the area near the racetrack where horses are stabled and the daily work of maintaining the horses occurs. In many racetracks, the stabling area is located next to the far side of the track, and may also be called "the other side of the track" or the "backside".

Stabling area

Backstretch is also used to refer to the stabling area adjacent to the racetrack.[1] A backstretch is divided into several areas. One, known as "shed row", is a line of stables, each stable home to many of the horses at the track. There are also dormitories, where workers (many migrant) live; offices for the trainers to register horses for upcoming races; a cafeteria; a recreation hall; and offices for the Chaplain.

People working in this area are sometimes described as "the backstretch family", consisting of trainers, exercise riders, jockeys, grooms, farriers, veterinarians, muckers, jockey agents, and others in various positions.

One groom explained the daily routine: "I come in about four-thirty. Feed breakfast. Most people have watchers [who observe a horse to make sure it is eating well and shows no signs of illness] when they feed breakfast. We don’t because the stable’s not that big. But I come in about four-thirty. Feed. Muck out my stalls. Then about five-thirty—six we start training. You know, we pack them up and send them to the track. They come back, we bathe them. But that lasts until ten or ten-thirty. Then we do them up. We put all kinds of liniments and poultices on them and put bandages on them. We feed about eleven a.m. Then we come back about three-thirty. Muck out the stalls again and feed them about five. And then we’re done..."

On racedays, the groom is also responsible for leading the horse to and from the racetrack, followed by a bath.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstretch


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stallenterrein

De paardenraces die gehouden worden op renbaan Duindigt zijn toegankelijk voor publiek. Per koersdag worden er 8 tot 12 races georganiseerd. Er zijn draverijen met aangespannen paarden met karretje waarop de bestuurder zit. Ze kunnen een snelheid van 45 km/uur bereiken. Ook zijn er rennen met Engelse of Arabische volbloeds, bereden door jockeys. Ze kunnen een snelheid van 60 km/uur bereiken. Tot slot worden ook draverijen georganiseerd: hierbij zit de ruiter op het paard en het paard mag alleen maar draven. Op het stallenterrein staan circa 200 paarden, zowel dravers als renpaarden. De draf- en renbaan is in 1906 opgericht op het landgoed Duindigt te Wassenaar.

https://www.anwb.nl/landvananwb/renbaan-duindigt