Re: Trevor Denman (708 Views)
Posted by:
imallin (IP Logged)
Date: November 07, 2006 07:04PM
Trevor's problem is that he looks at the tote board and calls the race according to who the public is betting. If Street Sense was 3-5, there's no way he misses him come up the rail. You know he was focusing on Circular Quay because his first few words were 'circular quay takes a bump' so you know his eyes were trained on the public's choice.
I think another problem with assigning Trevor to do this day was that they didn't go thru the original process of selecting the announcer like they originally did. When Durkin was selected, someone who was head of the BC listened to every announcer call anonymously on tape and durkin won hands down. Trevor Denman was selected on reputation, and not what he's done for horseracing lately.
The powers that be haven't been listening to his daily racecalls because he's been brutally bad at Del Mar this summer and even at Fairplex. Too many mistakes, calling wrong horses names and just being very slow to identify runners who were moving best of all. ESPN or whoever elected him to be the announcer, didn't listen to his recent calls...they just knew he was Trevor Denman, the legendary announcer from Southern California.
As far as people being jealous, stop it now..no one is jealous of his income or status.....people are simply being critical of amateur mistakes made by a veteran announcer who should be able to do better.