Just north of our ’hoods, in Saratoga Springs, where horses regularly sell for more than homes and my hometown, we don’t really like to think about what happens to Thoroughbreds after their racing careers are over. We love to think about the magnificent creatures when they’re two, three and four years old—when a particularly speedy trip around the legendary Saratoga Race Course track could win us big bucks—but once they pass their prime racing age…Poof! They’re gone from our minds. But just because we don’t think about it, doesn’t mean that an ugly reality doesn’t exist: Roughly 7,500 American Thoroughbreds are…
