Lead trainer Jay Bernardini, who currently trains 35 horses with a staff of seven to eight people, stands in a stable at Suffolk Downs horse racing track in Boston, Massachusetts October 2, 2014. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
BOSTON (Reuters) - Since high school, Lorita Lindemann has lived to the rhythm of horse racing - rising before dawn to tend her thoroughbred charges, cheering as they thunder down the track and working into the night to prepare them to compete again.
As Boston's 79-year-old Suffolk Downs prepares to close on Saturday, a victim of declining attendance and online gambling, Lindemann and hundreds of trainers, grooms and jockeys face losing not just their jobs but also a way of life.
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