Helping the Workers on the Backstretch

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By John Walters on Wednesday, September 24, 2003.
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Often the people who work behind the scenes at horse race tracks (grooms, trainers, handlers etc.) are itinerants. They have no fixed addresses, can't even register to vote and have nowhere to turn when trouble hits. Jim Greene and Shirley Edwards are co-founders of "The Eighth Pole," a human-services agency for backstretch workers at Rockingham Park.

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