Michael Wrona calling LA thoroughbreds

[Redbullsnation]

Michael's vacation will be a bit shorter this time. Looks like he's calling LA this time around...

[elhelmete]

Originally Posted by Redbullsnation

Michael's vacation will be a bit shorter this time. Looks like he's calling LA this time around...

Yes, the meet wrapped up July 12. I liked his calls.

[Redbullsnation]

I feel bad for Ed over there. His only opportunity to call a race longer than 4.5 furlongs vanished

[MPRanger]

Originally Posted by Redbullsnation

I feel bad for Ed over there. His only opportunity to call a race longer than 4.5 furlongs vanished

Yeah but Ed is great at it.

Wrona could never do QH races because he's still calling a t-bred race 35 seconds after it's over.

[EMD4ME]

Originally Posted by MPRanger

Yeah but Ed is great at it.

Wrona could never do QH races because he's still calling a t-bred race 35 seconds after it's over.

Imagine it was a 20 horse field?

[dilanesp]

Originally Posted by Redbullsnation

I feel bad for Ed over there. His only opportunity to call a race longer than 4.5 furlongs vanished

I'm not sure he wanted to keep doing it. He was calling 20 races a day.

[dilanesp]

Originally Posted by MPRanger

Yeah but Ed is great at it.

Wrona could never do QH races because he's still calling a t-bred race 35 seconds after it's over.

Wrona has called many QH races at Santa Rosa, the Bay Meadows Fair, and even a few at Fairplex. He's excellent (far better than Burgart, actually).

[MPRanger]

Originally Posted by dilanesp

Wrona has called many QH races at Santa Rosa, the Bay Meadows Fair, and even a few at Fairplex. He's excellent (far better than Burgart, actually).

Of course you're right. I was really making a joke about how long he keeps running down the race after it's over.

Ed does get it over with by the time the race is over.

[dilanesp]

Originally Posted by MPRanger

Of course you're right. I was really making a joke about how long he keeps running down the race after it's over.

Ed does get it over with by the time the race is over.

FWiW, I agree with that criticism (and Trevor sometimes does it too).

Interestingly, he didn't call past 4th or 5th at Los Al, so maybe they told him not to. (It really wouldn't matter much anyway, Los Al has the worst sound system of any major sports venue in Southern California so nobody heard a word he said.)

[anotherCAfan]

I thought Wrona did a great job calling Los Alamitos. To echo what dilanesp said, unfortunately it's easier to hear Wrona (or Ed) call on TVG, than at the track.

Do we know who will call the September daytime TB meet? Frank M.? Michael Wrona?

[v j stauffer]

Did you know. The GREAT Ed Burgart was once the full time announcer at Hollywood Park?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5unbtGtuDc

[EMD4ME]

Originally Posted by v j stauffer

Did you know. The GREAT Ed Burgart was once the full time announcer at Hollywood Park?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5unbtGtuDc

He did a good job! I did NOT know that...Nice to hear him call a full race.

[dilanesp]

Originally Posted by v j stauffer

Did you know. The GREAT Ed Burgart was once the full time announcer at Hollywood Park?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5unbtGtuDc

No he wasn't. There were a few years when Trevor was the annnouncer at Hollywood, and that gave him a year round job, so he would take a vacation during the last few weeks of the Hollywood Park fall meeting (which generated no public interest). They had different fill-in announcers-- one year Gary Henson came down from Longacres, another year Frank Miramahdi did it (and went crazy on the impressions of other announcers). Burgart did it at least two years.

But as far as I know, the full time announcers at Hollywood Park were:

Joe Hernandez (before and during WW2).
Hal Moore (late 1940's and 1950's).
Harry Henson (late 1950's through early 1980's).
Alan Buchdahl (1983).
Jim Byers (1984-87).
Bine Masters (first four days of 1988).
Mile Perrins (1988-89).
Don Alexander (1989-90).
Trevor (1991-95).
Luke Kruytbosch (late 1990's).
Chris Katoulak (one year in the late 1990's).
Vic Stauffer (last 13 years or so before closing).

Roy Shudt and Robin Burns were the harness announcers, and Terry Gilligan did the quarter horse races there.

[BIGTKLO]

YOU FORGOT WRONA

[dilanesp]

Originally Posted by BIGTKLO

WRONA

Good point. I forgot him. He had two stints, I believe-- one in between Alexander and Trevor, and one in the late 1990's before Vic took over.