Work Visas: Jamie Squire and Kentucky Derby

work visas: Jamie Squire / GETTY IMAGES By Lyndsey Gilpin The The Washington Post Thu., May 4, 2017 LOUISVILLE, KY. The backside of Churchill Downs is bustling on a muggy morning the week before the Kentucky Derby, according to Toronto Star. Inside Barn Four, run by trainer Dale Romans, a group of women slowly lead sleek thoroughbreds in circles, warming up their legs before they work out on the track. Many of the workers employed to look after thoroughbred horses are in the U.S. on temporary work visas or illegally. Several men rake hay in the stalls, stopping every once in a while to chat with each other in Spanish. Most of these employees on the backside where thoroughbred horses live during racing season are immigrants on visas from Mexico and Guatemala. Some workers spend their shifts bathing, feeding and grooming the horses; others do loads of laundry for trainers and jockeys, shovel manure and sweep the grounds. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.