Iconic New York Racing Broadcaster Harvey Pack Dies at 94 Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 8:29 pm | Back to: Top News
Updated: July 6, 2021 at 9:35 pm
T. D. Thornton
Harvey Pack, the engagingly witty curmudgeon who entertained and informed decades of racetrack fans in New York and beyond as a popular radio, television and handicapping seminar host, has died at 94.
Pack s death was confirmed by the New York Racing Association (NYRA), which employed him from 1974 to 1998.
Daily Racing Form reported the cause was complications from cancer.
Pack made a lasting impression as a self-deprecating “wiseguy s wiseguy” who passionately advocated for the underdog while never running out of strange-but-true racetrack tales and anecdotes, many of which involved the seemingly universal racetrack desire to gain an edge and cash big (although Pack himself rarely bet more than $100 a race, and often far less than that).
Colin Naylor arrives at Snaresbrook Crown Court.
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An electrician has been found guilty of a health and safety offence but cleared of manslaughter after a seven-year-old boy was electrocuted while playing in a pub garden.
Colin Naylor, 74, from Rayleigh in Essex, installed garden lights at the King Harold, as part of a three-month employment at the Harold Wood pub which ended in June 2018.
Schoolboy Harvey Tyrrell was killed when an electric shock “flowed through his body” as he grasped a metal railing while sitting on one of the defective garden lights on September 11, 2018.
Mr Naylor was found guilty of failing to discharge a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act by failing to take reasonable care to limit the risk or prevent the danger of serious injury or death .