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Old 09-17-2006, 07:37 PM
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Default Another great Durkin call!

Did anyone think Tom Durkin's call of the 9th race @ Belmont - the Ashley T. Cole was a little disingenuous toward Chantal Sutherland on Retribution?
"There gaining quickly on Retribution and the lead is shrinking" Yeah, they were getting closer, but not as much as you would think from his call.
The race was never in doubt if you saw the video, his call made it a race in the stretch. I'll try to find a link to it on the NYRA website for replays, but the new site isn't as "fan friendly" as the old one.
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Old 09-17-2006, 07:43 PM
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Default Here's the link to Durkin's call for Belmont@9th

http://www.racereplays.com/nyra/inde...start=gen_nyra

You may have to log in. "Thier starting to swarm...hanging on by three and a half". Just listen to the audio and then watch the race. Final margin was four and a quarter...but no doubt!
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Old 09-17-2006, 10:17 PM
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He is getting worse by the day now he is acting like those horses were making a race out of it at the 1/8 pole and it was all over.
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Old 09-17-2006, 10:55 PM
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just click on Retribution under videos
http://www.nybreds.com/

they were starting to swarm - 10 lengths back.

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Old 09-17-2006, 11:24 PM
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he might be a nice man for all I know,
but the announcement that he will NOT be calling the Breeders Cup is the best news I have heard regarding the event.
he is just plain bad at this point and nothing brings it to light more than when you listen to Luke Kruytbosch's call of the KY Derby(for the CD replay show) after listening to Durkin's call for NBC.

Denman is an excellent choice for the event.

he is probably a close 2nd behind Vic Stauffer for me as far as race callers go.
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Old 09-18-2006, 03:21 PM
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he might be a nice man for all I know,
but the announcement that he will NOT be calling the Breeders Cup is the best news I have heard regarding the event.
he is just plain bad at this point and nothing brings it to light more than when you listen to Luke Kruytbosch's call of the KY Derby(for the CD replay show) after listening to Durkin's call for NBC.

Denman is an excellent choice for the event.

he is probably a close 2nd behind Vic Stauffer for me as far as race callers go.
I agree with you, but I would add Larry Collmus and Kurt Becker to the list of excellent race callers.
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Old 09-18-2006, 08:17 PM
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Denman is an excellent choice for the event.

he is probably a close 2nd behind Vic Stauffer for me as far as race callers go.
VS to me is ridiculous as a race caller. HIs over the top calls, telling who has to do what, and what they are going to do has made me cringe and hit the mute button on a regular basis. When there is a full field, he struggles greatly and trips over his tongue. IMHO, he would be a much better commentator on TVG etc. where he can opinionate all he wants; I don't care for it in a race caller though.
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Old 09-18-2006, 07:08 AM
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This is getting pretty funny.
I mean if you wanna nitpick I could cut Denman to shreds each and every day.
That deal where Denman spends the last 10 seconds of the race using adjectives to describe how the winner looks and who is riding him rather than telling us who has moved into 2nd and 3rd to complete exactas and trifectas may be the worst thing in all of race calling.
In this case a horse who often quits had a 15 length lead reduced to 3 1/2 lengths and he was trying to anticipate what was going to occur.
He rightly pointed out the shrinking lead, but then with surprise in his voice called the winner winning.
I guess I don't know what the problem was.
But I do know that at Fairplex twice yesterday the camera was isolated on the runaway winner and while people were dying to know who was going to complete the tri and exacta in the race, Trevor was too busy telling us about how "easily, and put a circle around this one blah blah"". These are just terrible threads.
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Old 09-22-2006, 03:23 PM
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Belmont Park race 7 Prime example of the fact that he is over the hill


I bet the 7 horse, Pablo clips heels and gets unseated before going into the far turn and Durkin doesn't even pick it up untill the are in the home stretch cause he can see the loose horse on the outside, they pay this guy to announce and some people think he is the best.
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