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Originally Posted by Inner Dirt
Thanks for sharing but I think Chic Anderson's call is unmatched, he left us way too soon. Secretariat got me following horse racing, I was 12 when he won the triple crown.
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In 1973, this actually shows you the difference between a track announcer and being a TV announcer at that time. Back then, track announcers were expected to play it VERY straight; they didn't want to have some guy bellowing out drama over the track's PA system. So Dave Johnson- who we all know from later years was capable of delivering a television-style call- kept it pretty restrained as that was what NYRA wanted.
Anderson, at the time, was the PA announcer at Churchill. And if you listen to his Derby calls, they were much more restrained than his 1973 Belmont call was, because they were going out over the PA system at the track.
Denman and Durkin were the big factors in why this changed.