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Volume 6 • Issue 34 SaratogaPublishing.com
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Jockey Cams Bring Fresh Perspective to Racing Industry by Yael Goldman Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS – If you ask Mike Jones how he sees the future of horse racing, he will tell you he’s looking at it from someone else’s perspective.
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Jockey John Velazquez
Jones is the owner of Fort Edwardbased JonesCAM and the creative mind behind the JockeyCAM, a tiny, high-tech technology that captures horse racing from a jockey’s point of view. The micro-camera helps Thoroughbred trainers and jockeys perfect their stride, and Jones is confident it will double as an attraction for new fans to the sport and a moneymaker for the industry. Jones is not the first to introduce the helmet camera, but his high-definition device is the smallest on the market. At 3-ounces, this micro-cam is no bigger than a lipstick; it is easily Velcroed to a jockey’s helmet, and used to record a bird’s-eye view of their warm-ups and races. Jones, a retired ski coach with an Olympic track record, began making micro-cams 15 years ago for athletic
150 Years of Saratoga Racing by Daniel Schechtman Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS - Has it been 150 years already? The famed Saratoga Race Course, one of the oldest, most prestigious sporting venues in the United States is fast photo by Barry Bornstein
See Celebrating, Page 8 The historic Saratoga Race Course
More Good Neighbors by Yael Goldman Saratoga TODAY MALTA - Big things will happen in Malta, we've been talking about the potential for over a year. But, recently, a handful of new business developments, some related to GlobalFoundries and some not, are showing signs that the small town has
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TRAVERS STAKES
already lived up to its hype. Since the end of 2010, five GlobalFoundries support businesses have brought a total of 160 jobs to Malta. That number excludes two additional spin-offs that popped up within the last month, at least 11 others that have located in Saratoga County, and a handful of irrelevant
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Inside TODAY... Obituaries pg. 5 Winner’s Circle pgs. 9-14 Town of Malta Foundation pg. 15 Name Bubbles pg. 16 Back To School pgs. 19-23 Calendar pgs. 26-27 Pulse pgs. 28-31
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