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Broadcasting Pioneer Harvey Pack Dies at 94
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Harvey Pack, who became an unlikely broadcasting pioneer by delivering a blend of insightful, irreverent and heartfelt commentary on horse racing as host of the country s first nightly racing replay show, died Tuesday in New York City. He was 94.
For more than three decades starting in the mid-1970s, Pack was one of the best-known personalities in New York racing
, celebrated as the voice of the common fan, the $2 bettor. At NYRA, Pack created and hosted racing replay shows like “Thoroughbred Action” and “Inside Racing,” sprinkling the replays of races with his analysis, predictions and lively tales about the Runyonesque characters who frequented Belmont Park, Aqueduct Racetrack and Saratoga Race Course.