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blond ponytail poking out behind her helmet. “I go by the silks, not the horse.” Murmuring the horse names, O’Keefe added, gives him confidence when following the race.
“Gat Walking, Cat Walking.” O’Keefe shifts his eyes to a slip of a man in blue. “Oh.” he consults his clipboard. “Gat Walkm, Walk-in,” he enunciates each syllable.
O’Keefe climbs his midfield perch, adjusting his binoculars around his neck and takes up the mike. Color commentator and assistant Mike Hughes does the same.
“The flag is up, and away they go.” O’Keefe follows the race start to finish, rattling off all 11 entries by name (“The owners want to hear their horse’s names, and the trainers, who may be back at. the bam and not watching, sure want to know where their horse is,”) several times throughout the 1 3/4-mile race.
In the end, the enunciation of Stall Swapper mattered little; Fortune Writers, an easy one for O’Keefe’s booming voice, nipped Stall Swapper at the wire.
Almost before the horses were pulled up, O’Keefe was on the move again, high-energy to the end, headed back to the paddock to check the next race, reading his clipboard and murmuring all the while. “I wonder, sometimes, if people think I’m crazy, talking to myself like that all the time.”
Check out O’Keefe’s Central Entry design online at www.morvenpark.org/ceo. Click “past race results” to find winners, and losers, from the past five years on the circuit.
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