Frank Mirahmadi orn is a thoroughbred horse racing announcer. He has called at major tracks including

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, Louisiana Downs, Oaklawn Park, Monmouth Park, Golden Gate Fields, Aqueduct, and Santa Anita Park. Mirahmadi grew up near Santa Anita Park and attended Beverly Hills High School and graduated from

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. His father was a big racing fan and took his son to the track at a very young age. Mirahmadi called his first live race at

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on December 24, 1992. In 1996, Mirahmadi got his first full-time announcers job at Hialeah in

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. He is well known for his imitations of celebrities and other thoroughbred race callers. From a young age, he imitated many announcers, including Dave Johnson, Harry Henson and Trevor Denman. He used 23 voices in a race call at Turf Paradise in 2009. Mirahmadi has also been a television analyst for the major horse racing network

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and has done handicapping shows for Oaklawn Park, Monmouth Park and NYRA. Mirahmadi was hired as the new permanent race caller at Santa Anita Park starting with the 2019 winter meet. In 2022 Mirahmadi was announced as the new race caller for the summer season at Saratoga racetrack in New York. He will split announcing duties between Santa Anita and Saratoga race course.

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