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BROADCAST TEAM

GREG PAUL ANDY WOLF LO DUCA SERLING

Wolf, a native of Marin County, A former Major League Baseball All-Star The always opinionated Serling has been California, got his first experience with and veteran handicapper, LoDuca joined offering his handicapping insights on sports broadcasting while in college at the NYRA broadcast team in 2017 as a the NYRA circuit as amember of the UCLA, working on air for the campus member of Saratoga Live serving as an broadcast team since 2008. Serling is radio and television stations. Following analyst and handicapper. Lo Duca played a cornerstone of NYRA’s flagship Live graduation, he worked at CBS’s Fresno 11 seasons in Major League Baseball from programs, Talking Horses and is the host affiliate before he was hired as a writer 1998-2008, earning four All-Star of the Across the Board podcast, launched for the national prime-time show on selections for three different franchises in April 2017. Previous to working in the Fox Sports. Wolf joined TVG in 1999 from 2003-06 as a catcher. racing industry, Serling traded options on and hosted The Jockey Club Tour on the floor of the American Stock Exchange Fox. Wolf joined the team at NYRA for and played the horses for a living. Fans the launch of Saratoga Live in 2016 and can also follow Serling on Twitter where returned in an expanded role at Belmont he offers insights for horseplayers daily. and Saratoga in 2017.

LARRY MAGGIE LAFFIT COLLMUS WOLFENDALE PINCAY III

Highly respected for his work during Wolfendale has been NYRA’s paddock Pincay III is a veteran of covering the Triple Crown and the Breeders’ analyst since October 2010. The daughter high-stakes races. As a child, Pincay III Cup for NBC Sports, of Maryland trainer Howard Wolfendale, developed his love and knowledge of succeeded the legendary Maggie served as a television analyst racing when visiting tracks to support his as the voice of NYRA in 2015. Collmus’s at Pimlico and Colonial Downs prior to father- Hall of Fame jockey Laffit Pincay, announcing career began at age 18, joining NYRA. Along with her Jr. Over the past 16 years, Pincay III has first calling races at Bowie Race Course broadcasting career, Maggie is still covered Saratoga’s Grade I stakes, the in 1985. The Maryland native has since involved in the training aspect of the Breeders’ Cup, and multiple installments been the regular announcer for Golden industry, working with her husband of each Triple Crown race. Gate Fields, Suffolk Downs, Monmouth trainer Tom Morley, and retraining several Park, , and Churchill retired into new careers. Downs.

TOM JONATHON GARY AMOSS KINCHEN STEVENS

As an active trainer with multiple Kinchen is a seasoned horse player, the Stevens registered 5,187 wins and purse graded stakes wins, Amoss brings an 2015 National Handicapping Challenge earnings in excess of $258 million in a Hall expert perspective to the analysis team. champion and the first National of Fame career that spanned four decades. Amoss, a native of New Orleans and a The 55-year-old won 11 Breeders’ Cup races Handicapping Championship participant and enjoyed tremendous success in the Triple graduate of Louisiana State University, to have both of his entries qualify for Crown series, winning each race on three worked for Hall of Famer , The Final Table. Kinchen’s 2015 Tour occasions, including victories Frank Brothers, Larry Robideaux and Championship came on the back of aboard Winning Colors (1988), John Parisella before going out on his four tournament wins and two (1995) and Silver Charm (1997). He is one of own in 1987 at the age of 25. Since then second-place finishes in 2015. just nine jockeys with three he has saddled dozens of stakes wins having piloted Thunder Gulch (1995), winners, including Heritage of Gold, Victory Gallop (1998) and (2001) heroine of the 1999 Diana at Saratoga, to famous scores. A successful actor and tele- vision analyst for NBC Sports, HRTV, and TVG, and Backtalk, who took the 2009 Stevens portrayed Hall of Fame jockey George Sanford Stakes at the Spa. Woolf in the film “Seabiscuit,” and starred in the HBO series “Luck.”