 Skeggs' next big break came in the same year when he was covering a trotting meeting at Boort in Victoria.The course commentator failed to arrive for work and there was a call for a volunteer> Skeggs – being no stranger to microphones – offered his services.As a trotting commentator from 1948–1982, and the official Trotting Control Board Victoria commentator from 1955–1982, Skeggs called 20 Inter Dominion Championships and a world record 34,000 trotting races.