[Bring_Back_Shantz]

I've noticed one thing that has failed to be mentioned, about the Chuckwagons in particular.

Just about all of the horses used by the chuckwagon drivers, their pulling crews, and the outrider horses, are former racing thoroughbreds that have retired from racing.
I've hung out back in the barns a few times, and spoken with some of the drivers/outriders/barnhands, and just about every one of those horses was on it's way to the glue factory when the chuckwagon drivers picked them up to pull their wagons.

The Chuckwagon races do a lot to keep horses, that are past their primes for other horse racing events, around long after they otherwise would have wound up in dog food.