Tom Durkin's call.

[pointgivenpap]

Tom always does a good job, but come on dude. Next time wear your glasses so you can call the horse shooting up the rail. I thought his biggest blunder mistake was calling the 04 Travers, the "belmont" stakes when Birdstone crossed the wire at Saratoga, but this call was terrible. Hey Tommy, get a clue..................

[gales0678]

time to bring back Dave Johnson

this call had to be the worst in derby history, he never saw the horse , he sohuld have had a sign in his box - remember if see horse on rail , think borel

[VOL JACK]

Originally Posted by gales0678

time to bring back Dave Johnson

this call had to be the worst in derby history, he never saw the horse , he sohuld have had a sign in his box - remember if see horse on rail , think borel

Time to let Mark Johnson call the race to all....Great call on his part.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by VOL JACK

Time to let Mark Johnson call the race to all....Great call on his part.

That's the call we got at Arlington, and though it was difficult for me to hear him with a group of drunken frat boys next to me screaming, "WHERE THE HELL IS CHOCOLATE CANDY?!?!?!" over and over, I thought it sounded like a pretty good call from him.

[VOL JACK]

Originally Posted by miraja2

That's the call we got at Arlington, and though it was difficult for me to hear him with drunken frat boys around me screaming, "WHERE THE HELL IS CHOCOLATE CANDY?!?!?!" over and over, I thought it sounded like a pretty good call from him.

Kentucky Downs was actually alot worse for annoying patrons on Oaks Day. I think it was Grandma's day out and since the Bingo hall across the street burned they ended up at KD.

There were 2.5 dollars of Trifecta tickets at KD cashed in the derby.. A mom and Daughter had a buck each, because they liked the name.

[Travis Stone]

Calling at Churchill is not easy... they run straight at you, literally. Its the horses shoulders and the jockey's sleeves for much of the stretch.

The crazy part about this Derby... there were three horses with the same silks (Winstar) and two others with the same silk (Bernie/Atomic).

[_ed_]

Originally Posted by VOL JACK

Time to let Mark Johnson call the race to all....Great call on his part.

Yeah, very good call I thought. His only mistake was that went back to the English (and correct ) way of pronouncing Derby near the end of the race, but that's forgivable.

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by _ed_

Yeah, very good call I thought. His only mistake was that went back to the English (and correct ) way of pronouncing Derby near the end of the race, but that's forgivable.

How is it correct to pronounce Derby like "Darby"? If we're messing around with things like swapping vowel sounds, I'll just start pronouncing IEAH as "thrrp."

[_ed_]

Do you pronounce everything exactly how it's spelt?

I just think it's correct because that's how the race it's named after is pronounced. Anyway, it was just a random comment and a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt at humour, at about the quality level you can expect from me when I'm bored at work.

[Scurlogue Champ]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

How is it correct to pronounce Derby like "Darby"? If we're messing around with things like swapping vowel sounds, I'll just start pronouncing IEAH as "thrrp."

The same way it is correct to pronounce Paris (pah-ree)

I'm as American as anyone, but we do say it wrong.

I like hearing guys at the OTB in Kentucky pronouncing that Juddmonte horse Champs Elysees as if they never had a history class.

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

How is it correct to pronounce Derby like "Darby"?

Or Versailles as "Ver-sales," as they do in Kentucky?

[King Glorious]

If it was Trevor, there would be calls for him to be put to death by now.

[Danzig]

oh jesustapdancingchrist. could we not just have someone dig up the last 'race caller so and so sucked' post and put the next bad call in that thread?

[31lengths]

Originally Posted by pointgivenpap

Tom always does a good job, but come on dude. Next time wear your glasses so you can call the horse shooting up the rail. I thought his biggest blunder mistake was calling the 04 Travers, the "belmont" stakes when Birdstone crossed the wire at Saratoga, but this call was terrible. Hey Tommy, get a clue..................

The race hadn't even finished yet and I said aloud "Durkin's asleep again".

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by 31lengths

The race hadn't even finished yet and I said aloud "Durkin's asleep again".

True story.

or knee deep in mint julep glasses. those things are good!

[arulus]

I agree that was annoying. I see this horse charging down the stretch and I'm like ahhh! who the **** is that!?

However, has anyone else noticed that for the past year or two Durkin's voice always is annoyingly wavery during his calls? Drives me freakin batty. "And he-e-ere's M-a-a-acho Again on the outside."

[richard burch]

you guys have to lighten up. you couldnt even see him coimg up the rail behind all those horse.

not to mention that he was covered in mud.

[jrajf]

I loved the race visually but it certainly wasn't Durkins best!

He didn't see the winner until he was three lengths in front. Tough conditions and all but ...the best is suppossed tobe the best

[richard burch]

Originally Posted by jrajf

I loved the race visually but it certainly wasn't Durkins best!

He didn't see the winner until he was three lengths in front. Tough conditions and all but ...the best is suppossed tobe the best

i think we covered this one already. lets pick on someone else like grunder or that guy from the meadows harness track

[Travis Stone]

Originally Posted by richard burch

i think we covered this one already. lets pick on someone else like grunder or that guy from the meadows harness track

Or that guy from Louisiana Downs.