To my mind they are independant contractors. If the tracks want to make them employees and provide benefits to them in the form of health insurance, pensions, retirement accounts and the so on and so forth then the tracks should be able to determine their uniform. But they don't and its not a uniform. Its the silks of their clients and if their client has an issue with it fine. But the tracks need to be ruled out of this one. Lets give these guys a break when they're right about money issues.