What are The Best Race Calls of All Time?

[SilverRP]

"and Smarty Jones enters the stretch to the roar of 120,000, but Birdstone is going to make him earn it today.............Birdstone surges past, Birdstone wins the Belmont Stakes."

What a great call, but damn, it still hurts.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by SilverRP

What a great call, but damn, it still hurts.

Yeah I know, it does.

[randallscott35]

No Vic? I refuse to vote.

[keithting]

1976 Marlboro Cup

Forego gets up to nip Honest Pleasure on the wire...

What a stretch run and call !!!!

[eajinabi]

Mark Johnson of CD

[DaTruth]

1994 Woodward.

[smuthg]

I'd listen to Tom Durkin read the phonebook, so not only is he the best, he's my favorite... I think his call of the 1988 Distaff is amazing. While there was no drama, his call of 'Zapper's Met Mile is awesome... "there he is, your horse of the year"... and let's not forget his calls of Cigar and Tiznow's B/C Classics. I am not a big Trevor fan, and I really hope that we get to hear Tom call one of Zenyatta's races. Vic's the best they've got west of the Hudson.

[2Hot4TV]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

No Vic? I refuse to vote.

Vic's earthquake call should be right up there with the best.

[2Hot4TV]

In the mid 80's Tom Hammoud was calling races and he did a call of 3 horses battling for the win to the wire in a 3 horse photo and it was the best call I ever heard.

The horses names were "Who's it going to be, I Dont Know, and The Winner is".

I cant find the call on you tube , but I laughed all the way to the wire and Hammond called it perfect.

"Who's it going to be, I Dont Know, and The Winner is".

"Who's it going to be, I Dont Know, and The Winner is".

"The Winner is? .............."I Dont Know"!

[pgiaco]

There is also a Durkin call of a stretch duel between Woodmere and Wood Winner that is pretty entertaining....not up there with the big races, but fun none the less.

[alysheba4]

Originally Posted by SilverRP

"and Smarty Jones enters the stretch to the roar of 120,000, but Birdstone is going to make him earn it today.............Birdstone surges past, Birdstone wins the Belmont Stakes."

What a great call, but damn, it still hurts.

......was at the wire mid level, remember all those "go smarty go " ping pong paddle things they gave out, went flying.......i laughed and said to myself, i love new york. great day.

[smartbid09]

Originally Posted by alysheba4

......was at the wire mid level, remember all those "go smarty go " ping pong paddle things they gave out, went flying.......i laughed and said to myself, i love new york. great day.

Alysheba, I'm confused... are you saying you thought Smarty Jones loseing the Belmont was a "great day"?

[blackthroatedwind]

It was a great day.

[Linny]

It was certainly the most exciting day I've spent at Belmont.

About 8-9 years ago Tom Durkin called a neck and neck stretch duel between Congomambo and Kyungbokkung. He nhever stuttered over either name. Average race, great call.

I love Vic's "earthquake" race and of course, "..moving like a tremendous machine" is part of racing history.

[smartbid09]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

It was a great day.

So it was a great day to see a horse lose the triple crown.... why?

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by smartbid09

So it was a great day to see a horse lose the triple crown.... why?

Thank God horse races can be " great results " with more than one specific horse winning.

In addition, I'm glad to see Triple Crown winners remain great horses....or at least the ones in my lifetime.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by smartbid09

So it was a great day to see a horse lose the triple crown.... why?

i believe andy was happy to see nick zito win a classic race with birdstone. and of course mary lou whitney is one of the grand dames of racing. then there's the fact he didn't like smarty to begin with!

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by smartbid09

So it was a great day to see a horse lose the triple crown.... why?

Of course! Some of my favorite days in the sport have been those days. I loved seeing Big Brown spinning his wheels and going nowhere, and Real Quiet failing to sustain the 7f drive his jock tried to push him through. Seeing a horse I feel is undeserving fail to win the TC, and seeing a smug trainer be all disappointed about it, and maybe winning some cash while I'm at it? You can't beat it!

I was, however, very disappointed in 2003. I was there that day, and I really liked Funny Cide and would have enjoyed seeing him win it.

[Merlinsky]

I suspect the call where we hear "Morethan Fourhours....gets...up" on the 5/31 ATR is not gonna be ranked one of the best ever. Viagra commercial on the brain?