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Originally Posted by craigbraddick
That makes a lot of sense, thank you.
I have in my archive a very rare live radio broadcast of the 1934 Kentucky Derby that was transmitted live on the BBC National Program in the UK at Midnight on May 6, 1934 from the NBC feed. I think it is Clem McCarthy and he was surprisingly more descriptive in his call than I would associate with American race callers who I have heard from back in the day. Sadly, I am not allowed to put it online (one of the drawbacks of having access to a vast archive) but the NBC Radio Host sounds like a long lost cousin of Ted Kennedy and uses some "colorful words" when setting the scene!
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They don't have 1934 here, but this page has a big sampling of old Derby calls, so you can hear what McCarthy sounded like.
http://www.lkyradio.com/WHASKentuckyDerby.htm
