Michael Wrona
 

I found this short piece on golden Gate Fields announcer, Michael Wrona, and enjoyed reading it:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NSHG178I7M.DTL

I may be biased since he's my home track announcer but I really like his calls. I worry we'll lose him to a bigger track someday, he's that good. I actually have imagined hearing him say about my horse, "and O Firefly FLIES to the lead!" but sadly she doesn't run well enough for him to say anything that exciting :( (typical call for her is "O Firefly two lengths last")

Keep up the good work Michael! Someday I'll get a horse that's good enough to bring out the excitement in your call :D

GG has grown on me and so has Wrona. Tyically, I loathe ACCENT callers but Wrona does a fine job. I'd take him any day over Denman or the new dude at CD.

the dude at CD is pretty good.

As is the Mountaineer guy.

I find those accents a bit annoying but a good race caller is a good race caller and most of them seem to be good.

I think I also remember Wrona calling races on an old video game before ... Tom Durkin has the honor of calling races on the worst video game ever made. That NTRA game with Ghostzapper on the cover was as bad as it gets.

Was that on Hooves of Thunder?

I'm not sure. Someone else might know. I'd say it was a good five to ten years old.

Either way it was an awesome racing game -- managing horses careers through claiming races, conditioned races, etc....way advanced in some ways. Very good.

And that had to be a dozen years ago.

and i thought he was talking about the breeders cup game, durkin did that one.

Yep - that does sound like the game.

this is off topic, but a console horse racing video game with online capabilities to play against other real humans would be awesome

Maybe a Wii game using the Equicizer that invented by Frank Lovato. If you try to sneak up along the inside, I'm putting you over the rail.

If that ever happens, I will end up losing my job