The Collmus Interview
Patrick interviews Suffolk Downs-Aqueduct-Monmouth announcer Larry Collmus on Pulling Hair and Betting Horses. Among Collmus' favorite lines from calls past: "My best lines were off the cuff. My favorite would be when Cigar made his move in the 1996 MassCap, I said 'There goes the Legend.' I don't think anyone had called him that before. I liked it. He certainly was a legend."
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Noticed this tossed-off phrase in a Jay Cronley ESPN column today: "Women can't call races?" Which made me wonder -- is there now, or has there ever been, a woman calling races at any thoroughbred track?
3/30 Update: I knew there had to be female track announcers somewhere. A correspondent wrote in today to say: "Yes, in Japan and Korea, some women call races. Yasuko Iguchi, the first woman announcer of horseracing in Japan , had called JRA races from 1971 to 1995 on live broadcast of Radio Nippon. Kayo Koeda also is woman announcer at Hokkaido tracks. Kim Su-Jin became the first woman announcer in Korea."
Posted by JC, Mar 29, 2006 09:15 AM
