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At Belmont’s Backstretch, Caring for Horses During the Shutdown
Six hundred people live at the back of Belmont Park, caring for about three times as many horses.
Tom Morley had two thoroughbreds entered at Belmont Park on Wednesday when horse racing returned to New York for the first time in nearly three months. No winners, but it didn’t matter — this was hardly business as usual.
No spectators were allowed in the Long Island racetrack. Temperature checks, masks and hand sanitizers have joined rakes, shovels, wraps and ice buckets as vital tools of the trade of caring for and racing horses.
Still, Morley, a trainer, and his team were gratified to be back at work after a harrowing 10 weeks. Six of his employees tested positive for the coronavirus. Four of them were hospitalized. One, Martin Zapata, 63, the barn’s foreman, died.
“He was a happy guy,” said Morley’s assistant trainer, Michelle Giangiulio, who tested positive for antibodies. “Never a day he didn’t show up. He was the very first one to get sick. He had a cold for a little bit and nobody really knew what the coronavirus was. He went downhill pretty quickly; he passed within two weeks.”
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