Shake You Down is part of the Marion County Correctional Facility program New Beginnings, which connects inmates with retired thoroughbreds to care for them after their racing career has ended. The program is intended to provide skill, hope and …rehabilitation to both horse, and inmate.

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Women inmates find hope and skills caring for retired thoroughbreds. Watch videos of inmates telling their stories.
By Dave Joseph

There’s a single barn at the Lowell Correctional Institution; a single barn made from the wood of old Tartan Farm and the sweat of inmates.

It’s inside that barn where Tiffany Molina finds herself, staring past the stall of Breeders’ Cup participant Shake You Down and across rolling pastures here filled with retired thoroughbreds.

“Every woman wants to take care of something,” said Molina, serving time for grand theft robbery. “We don’t have our kids, we don’t have our families and we can’t take care of our husbands. So we have the horses who love us.”

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