There’s a potential victim of childhood obesity that I bet you would have never considered: the horse racing industry.

Really? Childhood obesity is so pervasive, that it threatens the ability of race horse owners to find viable jockey.

According to Deborah Butler, a British college tutor and stable lad (a person who looks after the horses in a racing stable), found that a dwindling amount of teenagers are light enough or eager to take on the manual work of looking after horses.