Okay…so this might not necessarily be weird horse news. It is, however, incredibly interesting and pretty unusual if you ask me!

When some professional athletes retire, they tend to stay involved with the same sport they’ve spent their entire lives playing perhaps in a different capacity. National Hockey League (NHL) great Wayne Gretzky, for example, dabbled in coaching an NHL team and then served as a “special advisor” to the Canadian men’s hockey team during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver after his storied career on the ice. Boston Celtics great Larry Bird coached his way to the National Basketball Association’s Coach of the Year title after his famous career on the basketball court.

And then there’s Vince Wilfork. Wilfork is a defensive lineman for the New England Patriots. But rather than coaching on the gridiron after retirement, Wilfork is planning to coach on the dirt.

“In the offseason I plan to spend time learning the trade of training,” Wilfork told a reporter from Harnesslink.com in a recent interview. “Maybe in my post-football career I will become a (horse) trainer