A Qld racecaller Michael Rona went over there about 15 years or so ago and became one of the leading callers at Hollywood Park and a few other top tracks. He became famous for calling Cigar's American record breaking win and several other top races. He's also the guy who called that race in the hit show Seinfeld. You know the one when Kramer overheard the tip on the subway.

He said that he was pressured a bit when he went there to only call the first 3 or 4 horses over the line and to change his style, but he didn't go along with that and always called just as he had done in Australia. He got into a bit of trouble for using some expressions because the Americans just couldn't understand them. One good one was when a jockey was on a horse that was doing it easily and he said that "he had something up his sleeve". A lot of people actually thought he must have been referring to some sort of illegal device!

By the way, there was another track he went to where the punters were EXTREMELY superstitious and he got accused of putting a jinx on certain jockeys simply by mentioning how well they were going. For example, one jockey had ridden several winners on the program and was coming up to a possible record in the last race. When he mentioned that and the jockey subsequently lost, a lot of the punters blamed him for for the loss by daring to mention it! So, after that, whenever a jockey was doing extremely well, he had to refrain from even saying a thing.