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The helmet camera David P. Matt and Kenleigh Hobby have developed is designed for horse racing jockeys. (Photo: EquiSight)

UA Duo Promoting Horse Racing Camera System

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UA Duo Promoting Horse Racing Camera System

July 20, 2011
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Merging their interests in professional horse racing with entrepreneurship and engineering, UA students David P. Matt and Kenleigh Hobby have launched EquiSight – a helmet camera system for jockeys – and are promoting it in Virginia this week.

There is something invigorating about watching a NASCAR race through a camera inside the driver's cockpit or being able to view a heart-pounding football match from a player's helmet. 

But David P. Matt and Kenleigh Hobby, both seniors in the University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program, said horse racing fans are not yet able to have a first-person, on-the-ground perspective of actual racing.

The two -- both UA animal sciences majors with minors in business management -- are bent on changing that, and it all began with a senior capstone project.

Hobby and Matt have since connected with engineering students at the UA to help develop a prototype for EquiSight, a helmet camera system being designed specifically for horse jockeys.

Their system, which is slated to be presented during UA's Engineering Design Day in May 2012, would enable tracks to broadcast the races live online and over their simulcast signals and, eventually, maybe in 3D.