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Volume 10  •  Issue 15  •  April 17 – April 23, 2015

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Springtime Foals: The Next Generation by Neil Benjamin Jr. Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS — A tiny horse is chewing on some grass, just feet from his mother’s watchful eye. The foal, born this past January, is not much bigger than a mountain bicycle, yet already has the personality of a sassy teenage girl. An extended arm offers a greeting, to which the horse simply shrugs off and turns around. This is just one of the many baby horses’ lives at the McMahon Thoroughbreds of Saratoga destined for a life of thoroughbred racing. With the seasonable temperatures and sunshine, these are the ideal

Photo by Francesco D’Amico

days for the horses to get acquainted with the world around them. And there are so many of them that they could have their own reality television show. “We have 60 out there this year,” John McMahon said outside of his stables on Wednesday afternoon. “When they’re born, they stay in the paddock area for a while before venturing out into the big fields. It’s a long journey.” The end result, he said, was for many of the horses to be ready for sale once they become yearlings. Their owners will race the other horses almost exclusively at New York tracks such as Saratoga, Belmont and Aqueduct.

by Stephanie Hale-Lopez Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA COUNTY — The Sage College is expanding its Capital Region footprint. The private, liberal arts college has announced it will soon begin offering a Master of Business Administration program at the Hudson Valley Community

College (HVCC) TEC-SMART facility in Malta this fall. Aside from Empire State College, no other higher education institution offers MBA programs in the Saratoga area. “There really aren’t a lot of choices, particularly for an MBA, up towards the North Country,”

Malta Drive-In

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Sage in Saratoga

College to Offer MBA Program at TEC-SMART

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Inside TODAY Blotter 5

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Obituaries 6-7 Business

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Education 16-17 Boomerang 20-27 Pulse 37-39 Sports 44-47

Weekend Forecast

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