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Old 09-01-2014, 01:46 AM
RockHardTen1985 RockHardTen1985 is offline
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I'll just re-post what I put on Facebook about Durkin.

So the singular voice of horse racing in my lifetime retired earlier today. Tom Durkin was more than a racecaller. He was a poet, an author, eloquently elucidating everything we'd seen and clueing us into what we hadn't. It is a tribute to his brilliance that my favorite call of his was a race in which I felt as though my heart had been ripped out of my chest, one where disappointment reverberated throughout the 120,000 people I stood beside so poised to witness history. There has never been a bigger letdown in my racing life and there has never been a better call to capture the emotion of so many. Tom Durkin was a scholar, a dramatist and a virtuoso. I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to his professionalism, his wit and his passion for making me fall in love with this incredible game. He will be sorely missed. #ThanksTom http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4gAeTic_9Bo
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