Spanish speaking Announcer at NYRA

[the little guy]

Originally Posted by devilsbag

Reportedly he was trained by Durkin on the art of race calling, but the language barrier was a pretty big obstacle. I translated the first race and Grandison said "the two Derby winners hit the wire together" at the half-mile pole, so clearly they still have some fine tuning to do.

"Reportedly" according to whom?

Where do people get this nonsense?

[JustRalph]

I think he was joking

[v j stauffer]

Originally Posted by PhantomOnTour

Luis Grandison debuts at Aqu today as the first Spanish speaking race caller in America.
Folks on track can tune into a channel that gives the Spanish call. English calls will still the be primary voice at the trackand on TV, but this is a neat offering for those with Spanish as a first language.

I understand that there are options for hearing the Spanish call in home as well for those who have RTN.

Congrats to Luis and NYRA...good move imo.

He is not the first Spanish speaking announcer in America. The great George O. ( Ortuzar ) of Hollywood Park and Univision fame called the races in Spanish at the Big Fresno Fair for a couple years in the mid 2000's.

Here's wishing Luis Grandison all the best in his new career.

[FantasticDan]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

I think he was joking

And an excellent joke it was

[v j stauffer]

Originally Posted by jk3521

How about a Jamaican Patois speaking announcer? That would be a trip!

America has also had that. Jamaican born Chris Armand was the voice of Detroit Race Course in the late 80's.

Many of his calls had everybody " feelin IRIE "

[jk3521]

Thanks for the info. In the deep recesses of my mind I kinda recall that.

[PhantomOnTour]

Grandison called the second race today (I think), but there was no audio on TVG

Discrimination!

[GaryG]

So....in New Yawk ils sont partis will become arrancan or some such?