One of horse racing’s most iconic voices is coming out of retirement to call the Belmont Stakes for Fox Sports. Tom Durkin will call the final leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown on June 10, richarddeitsch confirms.
with the New York Racing Association, Inc. , Fox is now the exclusive home for the Belmont Stakes, which had aired since 2011 on NBC.“I really hadn’t given it that much thought until they raised the possibility,” Durkin said. “I was pretty good retired, but I didn’t have many challenges in my life. Calling races was the driving force of my adult life. That was my identity. It’s what I did until I didn’t. So I needed a challenge.
“It took me 52 years to graduate from college,” said Durkin. “When I retired, I thought to myself, ‘Let’s get your degree.’ And I got the first two A’s in my brilliant academic career in anthropology and psychology.” “I’m not looking at Tom as a one-off,” Zager said. “I look at it like this is our year to make our biggest impact, and you only get one chance to make a first impression with our Belmont coverage. Then we’ll figure out everything after that. Hopefully, we come out of the gate making a great first impression for horse racing fans and sports fans in general.”
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