Last December, Olympian Boyd Martin led a retired racehorse retraining clinic at Baji Koen Equestrian Park, the Tokyo Olympic venue.

It was his fourth time leading the clinic, which was hosted by the JRA, the National Riding Club Association of Japan, and Godolphin. The three-day clinic helped 36 horses and their riders through the stages of introducing OTTBs to their new careers in jumping, dressage and eventing.

Martin, who finished 10th individually at the recently concluded Paris Olympics, has long been a proponent of the Thoroughbred breed. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, he rode the Thoroughbred Blackfoot Mystery, and he first went to Japan to promote the retraining of racehorses in 2017.