Larry Collmus, the race caller for the Kentucky Derby, the Triple Crown and the Breeders Cup on NBC, joined the Announcer Schedules Podcast recently, for an fascinating conversation with Mike Gill and Phil de Montmollin.
Collmus joined NBC Sports in 2011 as the race caller for the network’s coverage of the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont), and Breeders’ Cup. In 2015, Collmus began as NYRA’s signature race caller. One year later, Collmus called American Pharoah’s Triple Crown win – the first since Affirmed in 1978 – and the first-ever win in horse racing’s “grand slam” when American Pharoah ran for victory in the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Classic. In 2018, Collmus called his second career Triple Crown winner, when Justify achieved the historic feat.
Collmus who called his first race at Bowie Race Track in 1985 at the age of 18, later became the announcer at Churchill Downs, Gulfstream Park and Monmouth Park.
In addition, Collmus has called races at Saratoga Race Course, Belmont Park, Santa Anita Park, and the Meadowlands as well as numerous races on ESPN, FOX and CBS.
Collmus earned national notice when in 2010 when he called a race at Monmouth Park featuring two horses named Mywifenosevrything and Thewifedoesntknow. The two horses made a move on the back stretch and found themselves leading the race, with Collmus playing off the contrasts of the two horses’ names in his stretch call.
Collmus also goes into detail of that famous call featuring Mywifenosevrything and Thewifedoesntknow as well as his spectacular call of the historic upset by Rich Strike at the 2022 Kentucky Derby.
The native of Maryland also discusses the unique skillset required to call horse racing as well as the preparation he puts in before each race. He also describes how he broke into the business at a young age and the moment in which he was named race caller for the "Triple Crown" on NBC.
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