Fascinating, CP. It really is quite a feat, when there can easily be 80 or 90 runners at a meeting.

I often get a smile when you hear the caller filling up the air with words while he works out the name "... and coming through now ... behind the leaders ... starting to run on ... towards the outside" ... you can almost hear the desperate shuffling of the racebook pages as he tries to find the matching picture.

It's a fine job they do, and listening to calls of US or UK racing makes you realise what an excellent standard we take for granted here.