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View Poll Results: Who is your favorite race caller of all time?
Chic Anderson 5 8.47%
Tom Durkin 33 55.93%
Dave Johnson 3 5.08%
Trevor Denman 5 8.47%
Other 10 16.95%
Joe Hernandez 0 0%
Fred "Cappy" Capossela 3 5.08%
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Old 05-29-2010, 02:26 AM
v j stauffer
 
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While I think Tom Durkin has made the greatest race calls from # 2 to #32. # 1 Has to go to Chic Anderson and his call of Secretariat's Belmont. We racecallers go over in our minds many different scenarios so usually very little catches us off guard. I doubt if Chic had prepared for a 31 length win. A 2:24 mile and a half. Sham finally giving up and the racing world being stood on it's head. Even with all his experience he'd never faced anything remotely close to what Big Red did. He described it all with wonderful verbage, accuracy and sense of the moment. His call is part of the legend of that feat. IMO the greatest racecall ever made.
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