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Hickory Hill Hoff

04-19-2008 08:27 AM

The "Flakes" opens today...first race in honor of Ross Morton

Spring is officially here with the opening of Finger Lakes racetrack in Farmington N.Y. the first race of the meet will be in honor of the late Ross Morton where there will be no race call. It will be quite different not hearing his voice. :(

sumitas

04-19-2008 07:43 PM

A fitting tribute. I hope the flakes has a great year. A very important track in the scheme of things in NY racing.

ontheoutside

04-20-2008 10:36 AM

didnt know

could someone tell what happened to ross?i can kind of tell from reading he passed
but how?

jballscalls

04-20-2008 10:43 AM

i believe he had a stroke, there are some articles on drf.com if you search there.

ALostTexan

04-20-2008 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hickory Hill Hoff

Spring is officially here with the opening of Finger Lakes racetrack in Farmington N.Y. the first race of the meet will be in honor of the late Ross Morton where there will be no race call. It will be quite different not hearing his voice. :(

I have never heard of this sort of tribute, but I think that is really, really cool. Classy way to honor a race caller...

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