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Originally Posted by King Glorious
Oh yeah. I forgot that one. I forgot that nobody is allowed to make a mistake. You have to call over 1000 races a year and you better not make a mistake. I would love to hear all of those that criticize him try to do it once. Then if they get through that one race, let's see how they handle a full card. Not one of those cards with four and five horse fields but full ones. With jockeys wearing the silks of owners that they aren't all that familiar with. It's not as easy as people seem to think it is. I think that's part of why you never see the announcers that are on here criticizing any others. Because they know how hard it is. I bet most of you that criticize them couldn't do it even if you were watching a replay and knew the results already.
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I agree with most of this -- though on the other hand, it may need to be cleared up because some people are taking great liberty in their logical leaps.
For myself, I agreed that I was impressed with the fact that he called Gio Ponti. I don't think it makes him a great announcer, and he's probably not even in my top 5 favorites, it was just one thing that stood out to me on that broadcast, the same way it did to CSC. Generally, race callers are reluctant to make a call on anything they could potentially be wrong about -- ie anything less than an obvious head, so that's what made this really stick out was that it was so close and it just hit me as something you didn't hear every day. I also found it interesting that he was so sure of it, when the photo showed it was awfully close.
Doesn't make him the best. Doesn't make him less obnoxious for some of the things he does. Doesn't undo his botched Street Sense call in his second career Breeders' Cup race call. It's not supposed to. It was just a very unexpected, very confident, out of the norm declaration compared to what we're used to hearing during finishes that close.
No more than that.