Gulfstream Announcer

[MO]

The Churchill/Turf Paradise announcer Luke Krytbosch is calling at Gulfstream today. Anyone know why?

[NoCarolinaTony]

That\'s a good thing if you ask me.

[beyerguy]

I would guess Vic is headed back to SoCal to call Hollywood.

[Edgorman]

Does he annoy anyone else out there?  He shouln\'t be telling us what he thinks is going to happen.

[beyerguy]

I love how Vic tells us which horse is getting the best trip, and they never win!  Someone please inform him the best trip is usually the leader on the rail.

[P-Dub]

I think Beyerguy is right, Hollywood starts this week.

Maybe he should go back to calling the No Cal Fair Circuit. Surprised he gets to call at the major tracks.

[Delmar Deb]

NO ONE out here likes him...and it\'s not just the horses he says are getting the best trip that don\'t...it\'s also calling a horse as \"finished\" and seeing it cross the finish line first - usually in a stakes race!

He should have stayed at Hialeah...it would be worth keeping it open to prevent him from calling GP and HP.

[Chuckles_the_Clown2]

I can\'t say I pay announcers much mind. I\'m so busy watching my horse, noting the fractional times and the fractional horses I rarely hear what they actually say or I ignore it I suppose.

I thought the call on last years Fountain of Youth was outstanding, but it helps to have a bang bang finish after a long stretch duel.

The guy I can\'t tolerate is Trevor Demond. He\'s got that high pitched nasal twine and it ruins my concentration. I turn the volume down or mute him when he calls.

[shanahan]

no matter what you guys say..he\'s gone from So FL for now - \"and they\'re NOT going to catch him today\"...

[Bally Ache]

And he\'s not the guy who says that.  He\'s gone too.

[MO]

Looks like Luke was in town and just got to call a race. Vic was back for the next race.

[spook_express]

No one on earth is worse than Mike Battaglia.
I like Vic and Durkin.  In the harness world, Larry Letterman kicked butt.

[richiebee]

Spook:

 The guy at Tampa is IMO worse than Mike Battaglia-- he sounds like a carnival barker.

  Is Letterman the guy who did great imitations of other race callers? I think I once heard him at the Meadowlands thoro meet call 9 races in 9 different voices-- Denman, Durkin, Marshall Cassidy, etc. Very entertaining

[SoCalMan2]

Anybody remember Costy Costas?  Is Shenandoah Downs still standing out back behind Charlestown?  They should have an old timers day and re-open Shenandoah for a day of racing and have Costy call the card.   In Maryland they used to do that with the old Marlboro oval.  I do not think there ever was an announcer as distinctive as ol\' Costy!

[Bull]

Richie....the guy who does the impressions is Frank Mirhamadi (sp?), one of my favorites, and the guy who currently does Louisiana Downs and used to do Hialeah and a little Fairgrounds after Tony Bentley left.

I cannot stand Vic Stauffer. He is really bad. Every stakes race, at the wire he announces the winner and then screams \"Yessss\"; just so unneccessary. When there is a horse who is clearly winning big, he gives very little information about what\'s going on behind him. He just repeats the winner\'s name a bunch of times. It\'s hilarious when he attempts to predict the winner on the turn. \"You better take a look at so and so in the blue sleeves.\" If i bet that horse i just throw my ticket out every time. Sometimes I think he\'s watching a different race than me. The worse is when he says a horse draws clear and pulls away from another horse in the stretch, only to find out 70 yards later that the horse never pulled away....so Stauffer gives credit for the other horse making a miracle recovery on the rail. What a clown (no offense CtC).

Mike Battaglia is horrendous, but gets lucky that Turfway is such a good betting track. I do not mind as much.

Let Larry Ledderman call some thoroughbred races again. Ahh the days of Garden State Park.

Bull