Exclusive Interview with Larry Collmus
The Dan Patrick Show
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🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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The voice of Horse Racing Larry Collmus joins DP for an exclusive podcast interview to preview this weekend's Breeder's Cup on NBC's family of networks. What voice prep does he do going into a race and how does he go about calling a photo finish? The Breeders’ Cup World Championships are coming to iconic Keeneland, November 4th and 5th. Don’t miss the world’s best thoroughbreds race for their share of $31 million in purses and awards on NBC & USA. Visit BreedersCup.com to learn more.
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| 0:00.0 | Breeders Cup is headed to iconic Keenan coming up this weekend, two days, November 4th and the 5th. |
| 0:06.5 | Larry Kalmas will be on the call for NBC and he joins us now. Larry, thanks for joining us, |
| 0:12.4 | the voice as you get ready for this big moment. Any prep work? |
| 0:18.0 | I'm not a whole lot of voice prep. I just want to make sure that I'm feeling good and I guess |
| 0:24.8 | a lot of water, you know, try to keep myself hydrated. But it's mostly the most of the prep work is |
| 0:33.6 | is the memorization of the horses and all that stuff. But as far as voice goes, just kind of hope for |
| 0:40.3 | the best. You know, a lot of us grow up wanting to be something, you know, whatever it is an |
| 0:47.0 | athlete, a musician. At what point did you say I want to be an announcer, horse racing announcer? |
| 0:55.7 | It was very early. Probably was about 14, 15 years old. When I first got interested in horse racing, |
| 1:03.9 | I went up to the press boxes at the Maryland tracks because my father put in the sound system |
| 1:08.6 | up there. So I got to meet everyone and you know, started to do impressions of different race |
| 1:14.4 | track and answers. And one day decided to try to do it for for real and got a set of binoculars |
| 1:22.1 | of tape recorder and just started practicing calling races. And when I was 18 years old, the |
| 1:26.9 | general manager at Pimlico, Chick Lang, heard me and said, Hey, you want to call one race a day |
| 1:31.6 | over the mic? And that's how it started. How nervous? Binoculars shaking like crazy. I do remember |
| 1:40.6 | the horse that won that first race. Tiara's flame was the name of the horse. I don't remember much |
| 1:46.1 | else other than the fact that it was so glad when it was over. When you say that you do impersonations, |
| 1:52.0 | what are the different sounds that you have with the the announcers? Well, you you have different |
| 1:58.1 | guys like Trevor Denman who used to call it the races and Sanidad and Elkhause and Delmar's |
| 2:03.9 | field sent on that way in the Santanita handicap and they broken a perfect line. So, but you know, |
| 2:10.3 | you get different guys like Dave Johnson's got them the stretch they come and you know, |
| 2:15.3 | excited about that. But you know, you would listen to the different guys and like, I love this. |
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