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Detailed Biography of Tom Durkin
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A native of Chicago, he studied drama at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin.
He is the race caller for NBC Sports, and has served as the announcer for the New York Racing Association at Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course since 1990.
Durkin is one of horse racing's most identifiable voices. He has served as the Breeders Cup's chief TV voice from its inception through 2005, and is currently under exclusive contract by NBC as part of the network's sportscasting crew for horse races, providing analysis, commentary and features in addition to the descriptions of races.
Durkin has earned fame in this decade from calling the Triple Crown races for NBC, which took over the coverage of the three Triple Crown races in 2001 and has aired two of the three jewels since 2006 -- the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. When the race begins, Durkin will speak with high energy, and then tone down as the race progresses, and then builds back up to a significant level of excitement as the horses enter the final turn. He tends to begin races by commenting on the horses that have broken well, and then mentioning his opinion of the early pace.
Due to his contract with NBC, Durkin no longer calls Breeders' Cup races, starting from 2006, as those races have moved to ESPN.[1][2]
The NBC exclusivity has not prevented Durkin from calling the Belmont Stakes on the ABC Sports telecasts of the race produced by ESPN in 2006 or 2007, because the Belmont Stakes is held at Belmont Park, which he is the track announcer there. Like his predecessor, Marshall Cassidy, Durkin is also a popular TV voice on important stakes races on ESPN beyond the Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup series.
In addition to the NYRA tracks, Durkin has also called races at many other locations across America, most notably at Gulfstream Park and Meadowlands Racetrack.
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