On the front side of a horse racing track, one finds bright, decadent hats, pastel suits, and $22 mint juleps.And on the backside of the track, one finds hundreds of workers, primarily immigrants, washing and exercising muscular thoroughbreds at 3 a.m. on the soft, thick track."If we couldn't have an immigrant workforce on the backside, I don't know how horse racing exists," said Dale Romans, a racehorse trainer in Kentucky. "We can't send them home and ask them to come back. There's nobody to do the work when they're gone."
