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Tony Calo is the current track announcer at Ellis Park. His announcing career started in 1997 when he called races at Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colo. He was the regular track announcer at Northern California's Bay Meadows in 1998 and called at Golden Gate Fields starting in 1999. Before his role at Ellis, Tony was the track announcer at Finger Lakes race track in Farmington, New York beginning in 2008.

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Tony Calo is the current track announcer at Ellis Park. His announcing career started in 1997 when he called races at Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colo. He was the regular track announcer at Northern California’s Bay Meadows in 1998 and called at Golden Gate Fields starting in 1999. Before his role at Ellis, Tony was the track announcer at Finger Lakes race track in Farmington, New York beginning in 2008.

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Selections provided by Ellis Park racing analyst Kevin Kilroy. Kilroy also covers Churchill Downs, Colonial Downs, and Fair Grounds, serving as Handicapper and Notes Writer. A poet and novelist, his most recent book The Anvils (Spuyten Duyvil Press) follows a fledgling horseplayer as he bikes across Chicago.