{"id":12469,"date":"2019-09-17T13:21:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T19:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=12469"},"modified":"2019-09-17T13:21:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T19:21:45","slug":"12469-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/12469-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Wrona To Call New Fall Meet At Grants Pass Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10416\" src=\"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MichaelWrona-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Grants Pass Downs has named\u00a0Michael Wrona, one of the world&#8217;s preeminent race callers, as track announcer for its fall race meet. Wrona will call all 14 race days scheduled for Grants Pass Downs&#8217; inaugural commercial race meet, scheduled\u00a0Sept. 22 through Nov. 4.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Known throughout the industry for his signature \u201cRacing!\u201d call, Wrona began calling races in his native\u00a0Australia\u00a0at age 17 before coming to the U.S. in 1990 to take over as Hollywood Park&#8217;s track announcer. Wrona has since amassed an impressive resume calling races at tracks around the country, including\u00a0Santa Anita, Bay Meadows, Golden Gate Fields and the Sonoma County Fair in\u00a0California;\u00a0Chicago&#8217;s\u00a0Arlington Park; Retama Park and\u00a0Lone Star Park\u00a0in\u00a0Texas; the Fair Grounds in\u00a0New Orleans; Turf Paradise in\u00a0Phoenix\u00a0and Arizona Downs in\u00a0Prescott; and the just completed 2019 meet at Kentucky Downs, which wrapped up on\u00a0Sept. 12.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI was invited to call a few races at Grants Pass Downs in July and was made to feel very welcome by all levels of this quality organization,\u201d said Wrona. \u201cI&#8217;m excited to help launch a new era in\u00a0Oregon\u00a0racing as Grants Pass Downs acquires the license previously held by Portland Meadows. The ownership and management have great passion and vision for the track, which is in a beautiful area that I&#8217;ll enjoy exploring.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe&#8217;re thrilled to welcome one of the best announcers in the sport to\u00a0Grants Pass\u00a0to help us kick off a new era of racing in\u00a0Oregon,\u201d said\u00a0Travis Boersma, president of TMB Racing, Grants Pass Downs&#8217; parent organization. \u201cMichael is the perfect fit for this moment, and his unique calling style and raw enthusiasm for racing will only mirror the excitement we&#8217;re seeing from the\u00a0Grants Pass\u00a0community heading into the fall meet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Grants Pass Downs will kick off its first commercial race meet on\u00a0Sunday, Sept. 22. Races will be held every Sunday and Monday through\u00a0Nov. 4, with eight races scheduled per day and post times set for\u00a01 p.m.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10416\" src=\"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MichaelWrona-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> Grants Pass Downs has named\u00a0Michael Wrona, one of the world&#8217;s preeminent race callers, as track announcer for its fall race meet. Wrona will call all 14 race days scheduled for Grants Pass Downs&#8217; inaugural commercial race meet, scheduled\u00a0Sept. 22 through Nov. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-happening","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}