Tony Calo to become new racecaller at Ellis Park

Veteran racecaller Tony Calo will become the new track announcer at Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky., when that track opens its meet this summer, according to Ellis’s parent company, Churchill Downs Inc.

Calo, who has called races at Golden Gate Fields, Bay Meadows, and, most recently, Finger Lakes racetrack in upstate New York, was first hired by Churchill Downs last year as the new racecaller for Turfway Park, another Kentucky track that Churchill owns. At Ellis Park, he will replace Jimmy McNerney, who was also the racecaller at Turfway prior to Calo being hired last year.

Calo will also join Churchill’s in-house handicapping analysis team for the simulcast feed of Churchill’s spring, summer, and fall meets, the company said.

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