Tom Durkin paid $440,000 for 100 days calling races in 2014
Oct 20, 2014 14:08:13 GMT -5
Post by Jon on Oct 20, 2014 14:08:13 GMT -5
And worth every cent!
This is for Wiz's reading pleasure LOL
Tom Durkin paid $440,000 for 100 days calling races in 2014
NYRA provided recently retired track announcer Durkin a lucrative package
James M. Odato
Albany Time-Union
It pays to speak well of horses.
Just ask Tom Durkin, the voice of the New York Racing Association from 1990 to his retirement at the end of the Saratoga meet this summer. His contract paid him $440,000 in 2014 for 100 days of calling races at NYRA tracks. That includes $430,000 in base pay and an annual extra $10,000 stipend for working in Saratoga Springs, where he resides.
Durkin's deal with NYRA provided him $25,000 annual raises since 2008, plus the extra money for his Saratoga expenses, according to a copy of the agreement released under the Freedom of Information Law.
The agreement called for him to work 170 days a year as track announcer and race caller — except in his final year, when he was expected to work 100 days.
This is for Wiz's reading pleasure LOL
Tom Durkin paid $440,000 for 100 days calling races in 2014
NYRA provided recently retired track announcer Durkin a lucrative package
James M. Odato
Albany Time-Union
It pays to speak well of horses.
Just ask Tom Durkin, the voice of the New York Racing Association from 1990 to his retirement at the end of the Saratoga meet this summer. His contract paid him $440,000 in 2014 for 100 days of calling races at NYRA tracks. That includes $430,000 in base pay and an annual extra $10,000 stipend for working in Saratoga Springs, where he resides.
Durkin's deal with NYRA provided him $25,000 annual raises since 2008, plus the extra money for his Saratoga expenses, according to a copy of the agreement released under the Freedom of Information Law.
The agreement called for him to work 170 days a year as track announcer and race caller — except in his final year, when he was expected to work 100 days.
