match the race announcer with the saying

[Stillriledup]

Some are tough.
1) Stone Motherless last
2) Straight and strong
3) an absolute procession
4) Making 3-5 look like an absolute gift
5) The wife doesn't know
6) Here they come spinning out of the turn
7) Can see em all
8) Zoooooming By
9) Rocking, Whipping, Driving
10) Completes the superfectaaaaaaa
11) Coming at em
12) In front
13) il sont partisssssss
14) moving like a tremendous machine
15) And down the stretch they come!

[mostpost]

Some are tough.
1) Dead Motherless last
2) Straight and strong
3) an absolute procession
4) Making 3-5 look like an absolute gift
5) The wife doesn't know
6) Here they come spinning out of the turn
7) Can see em all
8) Zoooooming By
9) Rocking, Whipping, Driving
10) Completes the superfectaaaaaaa
11) Coming at em
12) In front
13) il sont partisssssss
14) moving like a tremendous machine
15) And down the stretch they come!

1) ??
2) Vic Stauferr
3) Trevor Denman
4)
5) Tom Durkin
6) Phil Georgeff
7)
8)
9)
10)
11)
12)
13) the announcer at Evangeline Downs
14) Chic Anderson (73 Belmont)
15) Dave Johnson

You know, when you ask someone to match something, it is customary to have a list to match it with. Left side a list of sayings. Right side a list of announcers.

[wiffleball whizz]

Some are tough.
1) Stone Motherless last
2) Straight and strong
3) an absolute procession
4) Making 3-5 look like an absolute gift
5) The wife doesn't know
6) Here they come spinning out of the turn
7) Can see em all
8) Zoooooming By
9) Rocking, Whipping, Driving
10) Completes the superfectaaaaaaa
11) Coming at em
12) In front
13) il sont partisssssss
14) moving like a tremendous machine
15) And down the stretch they come!


8. John bothe
12. Bullet bob Meyer from Yonkers
7. Jack E Lee
4 and 9 Larry lederman

[proximity]

i'm not saying it right. we need track collector or cj or takeout or veryoldman or...... but:

16) it is nowwww possst tiiiiiime!!

[gheuks]

4. Ed bogart
10. Tony calo

[michiken]

How did Bataglia's GAINING GROUND not make this list?

(4) Peter Barry?

Ken

[Maximillion]

A few more

17) watching the action intently from....

18)heads turn for home

19)overlays the five( ) and seven( ).

20)opens this thing up

21)under a handful (?)---(hint......new announcer)

[dilanesp]

5. Larry Collmus
12. Marshall Cassidy

[Stillriledup]

How did Bataglia's GAINING GROUND not make this list?

(4) Peter Barry?

Ken

UGH sorry i just did this off the top of my head (wood burning smell) you're right, that shoulda been added. Turfway hasn't raced in forever, so out of sight out of mind i guess. :D

[Stillriledup]

8. John bothe
11. Bullet bob Meyer from Yonkers
7. Jack E Lee
4 and 9 Larry lederman

FTFY Whizz. great call on the Bullet.

[Stillriledup]

How did Bataglia's GAINING GROUND not make this list?

(4) Peter Barry?

Ken

I didnt use anything from Peter Berry, maybe he can add himself to this list, i don't know if there's something he always says as his "signature' or one of his signature calls. Im sure there is, i just don't know it.

[Stillriledup]

1) ??
2) Vic Stauferr
3) Trevor Denman
4)
5) Tom Durkin
6) Phil Georgeff
7)
8)
9)
10)
11)
12)
13) the announcer at Evangeline Downs
14) Chic Anderson (73 Belmont)
15) Dave Johnson

You know, when you ask someone to match something, it is customary to have a list to match it with. Left side a list of sayings. Right side a list of announcers.

I thought of that, but i didnt want to make it too easy. ;)

[Maximillion]

i'm not saying it right. we need track collector or cj or takeout or veryoldman or...... but:

16) it is nowwww possst tiiiiiime!!

Their in the gate!

[wiffleball whizz]

FTFY Whizz. great call on the Bullet.

Noooooooooooooooo def #12.....

Remember being 17 at freehold at night for simulcast....

Bullet bob: jet laag in front

And sometime it's : jet laag in front and drawing away

[wiffleball whizz]

i'm not saying it right. we need track collector or cj or takeout or veryoldman or...... but:

16) it is nowwww possst tiiiiiime!!

Penn national lololololololo

[Stillriledup]

Noooooooooooooooo def #12.....

Remember being 17 at freehold at night for simulcast....

Bullet bob: jet laag in front

And sometime it's : jet laag in front and drawing away

Actually, my apologies, Bullet Bob did say "in front" but i was thinking of someone else who also does that.

[proximity]

Penn national lololololololo

try again. :ThmbDown:

and you forgot to add 22) .... if it was a fight they'd stop it!!

[Tape Reader]

1) And, as 56,243 fans get closer to the rail: (click) “That means one thing…”

[rastajenk]

What are we up to, 22?

22) Like an equine cannonball

(He occasionally posts here, too)

[Overlay]

i'm not saying it right. we need track collector or cj or takeout or veryoldman or...... but:

16) it is nowwww possst tiiiiiime!!
Fred Capossela

[Overlay]

23. "And now they come down to the wire, and its Number 1 and now Number 2, and it's very close -- it'll either be a photo finish or an oil painting." :) (Basic question: Name the person doing the race call in the recording. Bonus points for naming the (old-time) race caller whose style is being imitated/satirized in the recording.)

BavRrRNvz8g

[Longshot]

How can

"They would need to sprout wings to catch him"

not make the list?

[098poi]

Already on the list I think but what about

"The flag is up and away they go"

[SandyW]

How about:

"The crowd moves closer to the rail, It is now post time."

Answer is Freddy Capossela

[SandyW]

"Heeeere they come, "There they goooo....!"

That is the great Roy Shudt from Brandywine one of the one of the smoothest and most colorful track announcers ever in the business.

[Stillriledup]

How can

"They would need to sprout wings to catch him"

not make the list?

Trevor has a lot of "sayings" i just wanted to pick out one for him that wasnt "so easy" but it turned out that that we couldn't sneak one past people.

I was also thinking, for Trevor, "scraping the paint" and "Fielddddd" I also could have used "absolutely flying" "out of the clouds".

[EMD4ME]

Sorry for the duplicate(s) SRU, Love this thread!!!! Great job!!!

The half, in a slow 51 and 2/5 seconds....

There ooofff, there oooofff , there ooofff (echo echo echo). Only noticeable on track...

Completes the killer crossover

Risen star has the lead by a half, risen star leaaaads to the wire.

Round the far turn, blank has the lead by 2 lengths, blank is second, 3/4's 127 and fooooo. As they come to the top of stretch, blank has the lead by 4 and blank is second, blank in fron, silence for 5 seconds as they approach wire.

[EMD4ME]

In a five horse field, all 5 horses break slow and this announcer says:


Silence for 5 seconds, fooooor tha leeeaaadddd it's blanket blank

[EMD4ME]

The track is FAST and the Tuuuuuurffff is fiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrmmmmm

[Stillriledup]

The track is FAST and the Tuuuuuurffff is fiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrmmmmm

Every announcer also says "if you have your programs handy"

Well, you know, that was when people could actually AFFORD a program!

You have to love it when TD says "FIRMMMMM". :ThmbUp:

[EMD4ME]

Every announcer also says "if you have your programs handy"

Well, you know, that was when people could actually AFFORD a program!

You have to love it when TD says "FIRMMMMM". :ThmbUp:

Is that what that circular paper object is ? I thought it was a home made whipping mechanism! I see guys smashing their right or sometimes left thigh with this thing. Are you telling me it's their program??? :lol:

What will they do if they ever start using a tablet??? :jump:

[Stillriledup]

Is that what that circular paper object is ? I thought it was a home made whipping mechanism! I see guys smashing their right or sometimes left thigh with this thing. Are you telling me it's their program??? :lol:

What will they do if they ever start using a tablet??? :jump:

:D
We ALL whip our legs as well as yell things that women and children can't hear when they're coming down the lane and there's a shot to make some Keesh!

[Stillriledup]

27) The more THEY ask, the more HE gave. :D

[EMD4ME]

I was kidding, I am extremely demonstrative in my rooting home of winners and losers. Lol

Who is #27??? That sounds so familiar

[bdownes]

Trevor

[appistappis]

here is one from the trotters 35 years ago.

"they're coming from the east end parking lot."

[RacingFan1992]

Already on the list I think but what about

"The flag is up and away they go"

Harry Henson. There is a classic one of him calling the 1982 Hollywood Lassie with Landaluce.

[Stillriledup]

Harry Henson. There is a classic one of him calling the 1982 Hollywood Lassie with Landaluce.

Or, Vic honoring Harry when he called the Henson stakes at Hollywood by starting the race the same way Harry would have. :ThmbUp:

[Stillriledup]

Some are tough.
1) Stone Motherless last
2) Straight and strong
3) an absolute procession
4) Making 3-5 look like an absolute gift
5) The wife doesn't know
6) Here they come spinning out of the turn
7) Can see em all
8) Zoooooming By
9) Rocking, Whipping, Driving
10) Completes the superfectaaaaaaa
11) Coming at em
12) In front
13) il sont partisssssss
14) moving like a tremendous machine
15) And down the stretch they come!


Nobody guessed #1, a man who's also famous for "He's stays like a mother in law".

[dilanesp]

23. "And now they come down to the wire, and its Number 1 and now Number 2, and it's very close -- it'll either be a photo finish or an oil painting." :) (Basic question: Name the person doing the race call in the recording. Bonus points for naming the (old-time) race caller whose style is being imitated/satirized in the recording.)

BavRrRNvz8g

Doodles Weaver and Clem McCarthy

[dilanesp]

It might be interesting to say a bit about Clem McCarthy. Clem McCarthy is credited with inventing the race call in the US-- he had some of the earliest public address jobs and also announced major races including the Triple Crown and Santa Anita Handicap on national radio for a number of years, during an era when horse racing was one of the big three American sports, along with baseball and boxing.

And speaking of boxing, McCarthy was also the most famous boxing announcer of his era, doing all the big fights from the era of Jack Dempsey through the first part of Joe Louis' career. His most famous broadcast was the second Louis-Schmelling fight, which is an incredibly historic event for all sorts of reasons and was listened to by tens of millions of people.

So that's why Doodles goes from his horse racing call into a gravelly boxing call midway through the stretch of that race.

The thing is, McCarthy, despite being a pioneer, was really no good at announcing horse racing. He was, however, extremely good at calling boxing.

Here's a link to him calling the 1949 Kentucky Derby, won by Ponder. It's a pretty bad call:

1949 Derby call (http://www.lkyradio.com/audio/WHAS1949KentuckyDerby(ClemMcCarthy).mp3)

Unfortunately, I can't find his classic call of the second Louis-Schmelling bout "Schmelling is DOWN! The count is 5, 6, 7!". So you will need to take my word for it that he was good at it.

At any rate, he had a gravelly voice and staccato delivery that was perfect for boxing on the radio, e.g., "Louis hits him with a right, and another right, and a left!", which is what Doodles is parodying.

If your curious, the first really good horse racing announcer was almost certainly Joe Hernandez, who announced Santa Anita from 1934 to 1972. Unlike old Clem, or other early announcers like Bryan Field (see this call: Bryan Field calling the Derby (http://www.lkyradio.com/audio/WHAS1936KentuckyDerby1936(BryanField).mp3) ), Hernandez figured out how to put the race together in a coherent fashion so that a listener could actually figure out what was going on. This call, from 1937, is exemplary of Hernandez's early work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1geFpCz3-c .

The rest of America didn't really get well-announced horse races until Fred Caposella, who was spartan but very accurate and easy to follow, started calling the national races in the 1950's when old Clem retired.

[Dark Horse]

I can pretty much dream what this caller is going to say, but it works:

They're loading quickly now

And aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaway they go!

All came out well

So and so is very fast, but ...

They slowed it right down

Four lengths would cover the lot - or - they're strung out over a lot of ground

They would have to grow wings to catch him -or- any of three could win it

Mo-ving like a win-ner! - or - So close! -or - a very stylish winner today.


Obviously he has more options, but he rarely goes outside of a collection of standard phrases. It doesn't matter, because there is no need. But it does feel a little mechanical at times.

[upthecreek]

14) moving like a tremendous machine--Kim Kardashian during the making of her famous sex tape? :lol:

[affirmedny]

28) "if this was a fight, they's stop it!"
29) "Here comes Forego on the outside"
30) "All you need to know.....is Jackie Mo"
31) "All coming away to a good start"
32) "Now they're all in"

[wisconsin]

33)Herve that's all ya gotta say!

30)Jackie Lee see above
32)Phil Georgeoff

[RacingFan1992]

28) "if this was a fight, they's stop it!"
29) "Here comes Forego on the outside"
30) "All you need to know.....is Jackie Mo"
31) "All coming away to a good start"
32) "Now they're all in"

THe Forego quote was in the 1976 Marlboro Handicap called by Dave Johnson. Honest Pleasure was a lightweight while Forego was carrying a Grand Piano.

[onefast99]

"Mywifenosevrything! Thewifedoesntknow! They're 1-2! Of course they are! Mywifenosevrything in front, to the outside, Thewifedoesntknow! Mywifenosevrything! Thewifedoesntknow! Mywifenosevrything... MORE than Thewifedoesntknow!
A classic!

[BlueShoe]

28) "if this was a fight, they's stop it!"
Chick Hearn

[BlueShoe]

(?) "And they're not going to get 'em today."

[Stillriledup]

(?) "And they're not going to get 'em today."

That's the guy from Calder, but i'n not sure of his name.

[wisconsin]

That's the guy from Calder, but i'n not sure of his name.


Phil Saltzman

[Stillriledup]

Phil Saltzman

Thanks, that's the guy.

[Stillriledup]

Another one i forgot was Keith Jones at Parx.

"HELLLLLLLO!"

[cnollfan]

# 1 is Michael Wrona, one of my favorites.

[cnollfan]

34) Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrracing!

[ArlJim78]

Another one i forgot was Keith Jones at Parx.

"HELLLLLLLO!"
I love that one for some reason. When a bomb comes in, "HELLO!"

Is it the guy from Calder who says "you can put a ring around it"?

[Stillriledup]

I love that one for some reason. When a bomb comes in, "HELLO!"

Is it the guy from Calder who says "you can put a ring around it"?

I think there's a new guy at Calder, Bobby Newman? Its not Saltzman anymore?, but i'm not too familiar with CRC so i don't know who's calling races there now, or who their full time guy is, but i do know the ring around it call, just not sure who uses it.

[onefast99]

Bobby Newman calls Calder. Phil left in January of 2005. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3TJqF1uCJQ

[wisconsin]

Saltzman did not get into announcing until he was in his 40's.

[EMD4ME]

35) Gary Stevens has committed a felony!!! And we have captured it on videotape!

[VeryOldMan]

THe Forego quote was in the 1976 Marlboro Handicap called by Dave Johnson. Honest Pleasure was a lightweight while Forego was carrying a Grand Piano.

Did that include the great "freight train" call re Forego? One of my absolute favorites.

[thespaah]

Some are tough.
1) Stone Motherless last
2) Straight and strong
3) an absolute procession
4) Making 3-5 look like an absolute gift
5) The wife doesn't know
6) Here they come spinning out of the turn
7) Can see em all
8) Zoooooming By
9) Rocking, Whipping, Driving
10) Completes the superfectaaaaaaa
11) Coming at em
12) In front
13) il sont partisssssss
14) moving like a tremendous machine
15) And down the stretch they come!
1) Don't know
2) Vic
3) Loiselle( Woodbine)
4)?
5) ?
6) Phil Gerogeff
7) Jack E Lee
8) John Bothe
9) Not sure but I can picture it...Can't remember
10) DK
11) The "Bullet Bob Meyer( Yonkers in the 80's)
12) Many .....Most likely Marshall Cassidy
13) The guy at Evangeline or Delta..
14) Chic Anderson...used this only once that I know of
15) Dave Johnson

[thespaah]

How did Bataglia's GAINING GROUND not make this list?

(4) Peter Barry?

Ken
Or "down along the rail"....Says this every single call

[thespaah]

Trevor has a lot of "sayings" i just wanted to pick out one for him that wasnt "so easy" but it turned out that that we couldn't sneak one past people.

I was also thinking, for Trevor, "scraping the paint" and "Fielddddd" I also could have used "absolutely flying" "out of the clouds".
"On the grandstand side"....

[thespaah]

In a five horse field, all 5 horses break slow and this announcer says:


Silence for 5 seconds, fooooor tha leeeaaadddd it's blanket blank
Dead giveaway.....Mr Pregnant pause himself.....Mike Bataglia

[Stillriledup]

Dead giveaway.....Mr Pregnant pause himself.....Mike Bataglia

For theeeeeeee.......count 9 seconds.....lead.....count 4 seconds....from the in......2 second pause....side.

[thespaah]

ok...Name the announcer
then state what he says as they leave the gate...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldwDLKrEnFc

Oh...I have no clue what he says

[Stillriledup]

ok...Name the announcer
then state what he says as they leave the gate...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldwDLKrEnFc

Oh...I have no clue what he says

Its Ed Gorman, he says "there they gooooooo" but it doesn't sound like it.

[thespaah]

And here is Tom Durkin at Meadowlands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1rKiH3PvJw

[RacingFan1992]

Tom Durkin in the 1994 BC Distaff The one about Gary Stevens committing a felon.

[thespaah]

unrelated to the thread but check this out...
Skip to about 0:45 seconds....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=475jl7iGMoY
And of course the track announcer..

[affirmedny]

Chick Hearn


Maybe, but not who I was thinking of

[affirmedny]

THe Forego quote was in the 1976 Marlboro Handicap called by Dave Johnson. Honest Pleasure was a lightweight while Forego was carrying a Grand Piano.

Yes, but he said it pretty much every time Forego ran except of course the very few times Forego didn't rally.

[affirmedny]

33)Herve that's all ya gotta say!

30)Jackie Lee see above
32)Phil Georgeoff

32) maybe Phil used to say it too, but not who I was thinking of

[gheuks]

"And there not gonna got em today"

[thespaah]

Its Ed Gorman, he says "there they gooooooo" but it doesn't sound like it.
BINGO...
I heard a rumor that Gorman got the job at the meadowlands because he had family ties to then Gov Thomas Kean.
It was ironic that once Kean left office, Gorman was gone.
Never heard from him at any other track after then.

[dilanesp]

Dead giveaway.....Mr Pregnant pause himself.....Mike Bataglia

Marshall Cassidy used to do the pregnant pause thing too.

"They're ALL in LIIIIIIIINE." [pause 3 seconds after gates open] "They're off." [pause 4 more seconds] "And Groovy is going to the lead with Sun Master in second..."

[infrontby1]

"they're neck and neck, nose and nose for the lead"

[Stillriledup]

Marshall Cassidy used to do the pregnant pause thing too.

"They're ALL in LIIIIIIIINE." [pause 3 seconds after gates open] "They're off." [pause 4 more seconds] "And Groovy is going to the lead with Sun Master in second..."

The guy at evangeline is really annoying with his stupid catch phrase at the start, and he draws it out so long that the race has already been running over 5 seconds before he even calls a horse.

[VeryOldMan]

Marshall Cassidy used to do the pregnant pause thing too.

"They're ALL in LIIIIIIIINE." [pause 3 seconds after gates open] "They're off." [pause 4 more seconds] "And Groovy is going to the lead with Sun Master in second..."
Blast from the past - spot on.

[Wickel]

Some are tough.
1) Stone Motherless last
2) Straight and strong
3) an absolute procession
4) Making 3-5 look like an absolute gift
5) The wife doesn't know
6) Here they come spinning out of the turn
7) Can see em all
8) Zoooooming By
9) Rocking, Whipping, Driving
10) Completes the superfectaaaaaaa
11) Coming at em
12) In front
13) il sont partisssssss
14) moving like a tremendous machine
15) And down the stretch they come!


1. Don't know
2. Stauffer
3. Mirahmadi
4. Burgart
5. Collmus
6. Georgeff
7. Denman
8. Don't know
9. Don't know
10. The dude from The Meadows
11. Don't know
12. Don't know
13. Evangeline announcer
14. Anderson
15. Johnson

[wisconsin]

Is 10) Howard Oil?

[Stillriledup]

Is 10) Howard Oil?
No, its Tony calo from Finger Lakes.

But i do like Howie Oil, i love his tone, i don't listen to MR too often so i don't know his 'usual sayings' but i like him as an announcer.

[wisconsin]

The guy at evangeline is really annoying with his stupid catch phrase at the start, and he draws it out so long that the race has already been running over 5 seconds before he even calls a horse.


He did not coin the phrase. It goes back into the '60's and through a few other announcers. It's French for "They're off". Southern Louisiana is a French area, so it makes sense.

[Stillriledup]

He did not coin the phrase. It goes back into the '60's and through a few other announcers. It's French for "They're off". Southern Louisiana is a French area, so it makes sense.

Didnt say he coined it, just said that he uses it for every race. Yeah, its annoying, i said it. :D

[Wickel]

How about the announcer the preceded Ed Burgart. He was well-known for starting a race this way: "They're running."

[Wickel]

Or Milo Perrins at Hollywood Park, The Downs at Santa Fe and on the Maryland circuit: "(insert horse's name) is a maiden no more."

[affirmedny]

BINGO...
I heard a rumor that Gorman got the job at the meadowlands because he had family ties to then Gov Thomas Kean.
It was ironic that once Kean left office, Gorman was gone.
Never heard from him at any other track after then.

I was at the Meadowlands one night and Mr Gorman called the first couple of races and was obviously in no condition to do so and was replaced by Dave Johnson for the rest of the card. I don't think he lasted too long after that and it may have had something to do with his being replaced. Other than that one night I thought he was very good though.

[Tall One]

Harry Henson. There is a classic one of him calling the 1982 Hollywood Lassie with Landaluce.



Denman used it in "Let it Ride" also. :)

[BlueShoe]

How about the announcer the preceded Ed Burgart. He was well-known for starting a race this way: "They're running." That was Bobby Doyle. Another one of his calls was when, after a very close finish and a long wait for the results to be posted, if it was a dead heat he would say "Hello There."

[thespaah]

Blast from the past - spot on.
When Cassidy was calling the NYRA races I believe the timer was started manually once the horses past the flag man. Cassidy would wait until the horses past the flag to start describing the race.
That's my perception.

[thespaah]

No, its Tony calo from Finger Lakes.

But i do like Howie Oil, i love his tone, i don't listen to MR too often so i don't know his 'usual sayings' but i like him as an announcer.
Oil would sit in the lower level of the grandstand at both Yonkers and Roosevelt He'd handicap the race, then go into a rendition of calling the race as he saw it.
He did an impression of Bob Meyer.
He used all of Meyer's phrases.
He finally got the job calling Monticello. As I understand it, Oil has been there several years.

[Dan Montilion]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGZqC9pvp7g

Accurate, does not think he is the show. Sans the screaming, yelling and gutural noise.

[Big Russ]

i'm not saying it right. we need track collector or cj or takeout or veryoldman or...... but:

16) it is nowwww possst tiiiiiime!!

Costy Caras "...they continue that way..."

[affirmedny]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGZqC9pvp7g

Accurate, does not think he is the show. Sans the screaming, yelling and gutural noise.


He is the answer to my #31(of course he also called Forego 2nd and 6th at the top of the stretch, I'll give him a pass as there was a horse with similar colors)

[EMD4ME]

Noooooooooooooooo def #12.....

Remember being 17 at freehold at night for simulcast....

Bullet bob: jet laag in front

And sometime it's : jet laag in front and drawing away


I grew up listening to him too. Would call the sports line, something like 718 976-6969 from a payphone 30 years ago and you could hear the last 20 seconds of his race call.

He had the same phrases for various parts of the race. I remember:

Threeeee Kawtuers, 131 and ooooonnnee. Round the far turn


Aaaaas theyyyyyyyyyy come by tha stands tha fis time

[biggestal99]

Fly Fly Rocky, In Front.

LOL. One of my first winning bets.

a really good memory.

Allan

[levinmpa]

I didn't see this one in the thread. Maybe I missed it.

"A quarter to go at Pimlico"

[EMD4ME]

"ALL IN, locked UP" and then an assistant starter would scream


"LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCKED UP"

[johnhannibalsmith]

"First call, that was all"

[Track Collector]

In the late 80's I believe the announcer at Garden State used to say:

"They're In...........They're Out".

At Great Lakes Downs I recall it was "Break Time", and "Coming Round the I-96 Turn".

Those were from the early days of YouBet!, where one could actually watch and bet on the races from their computer. :eek:

[EMD4ME]

After they hit the wire:

The UNOFFICIAL WINNING TIME......................Pause................... .........


Is not on the board.

[VigorsTheGrey]

And there they go....

[EMD4ME]

And there they go....

Wait....I need one hint. It is more like?


NNNNN D AAAAARRRRREEEEE


DEY GGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[EMD4ME]

And there they go....


Are you talking about the one and only KILLER CROSSOVER SAYING, COMPLETES THE SUPERFECTA CARING, READY FOR THE SUNDAY FEATUUUUUUUUUUREEE stating, wish HE called my track full time Tony TKO Calo????

[VigorsTheGrey]

Are you talking about the one and only KILLER CROSSOVER SAYING, COMPLETES THE SUPERFECTA CARING, READY FOR THE SUNDAY FEATUUUUUUUUUUREEE stating, wish HE called my track full time Tony TKO Calo????

Nope. It's Joe Hernandez the legend of Santa Anita. A slightly raw but unforgettable voice....great race caller....I was going to Santa Anita throughout the 1970s. Saw some of the greats including my namesake vigors, a white horse like shadowfax in lord of the rings

[BIGTKLO]

Harry Henson, Joe Hernandez, John Gibson, OLD SCHOOL Craig Ingram and myself. Todd Creed also started his calls this way, but he had a different spin on it.

[Jeff P]

"First call, that was all"

Boomer. :D :ThmbUp:



-jp

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