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title: Dave Johnson (announcer) text: Dave Johnson (announcer) Dave Johnson is an American announcer and sportscaster, best known for his work in horse racing with ABC and NBC Sports and at various race tracks in New York and New Jersey. His signature line — "And "down" the stretch they come!" — is instantly recognizable throughout the sport, and often imitated by comedians, notably David Letterman. From 1972 to 1977, Johnson was the public address announcer for the tracks of the New York Racing Association. In 1977 he moved to the new Meadowlands Racetrack in New Jersey, calling both Thoroughbred and harness racing. He maintained his title: Dave Johnson (announcer) text: the stretch they come!" Johnson portrayed himself as the track announcer at Belmont Park in the film "Ruffian," about the famous match race in 1975 in which the filly Ruffian broke down as she raced Foolish Pleasure. Dave Johnson (announcer) Dave Johnson is an American announcer and sportscaster, best known for his work in horse racing with ABC and NBC Sports and at various race tracks in New York and New Jersey. His signature line — "And "down" the stretch they come!" — is instantly recognizable throughout the sport, and often imitated by comedians, notably David Letterman. From 1972 to title: Bobbito Garcia text: and written by Garcia. Entitled "Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives", the film includes interviews with Nas, Jay-Z, Eminem, Common, Fat Joe, Rosie Perez and DJ Premier, among others. In 2018, Garcia released his third documentary, "Rock Rubber 45s." It serves as his most personal film to date. In an interview with HipHopDX, he explained, "There’s a great O.C. lyric from the song ‘Time’s Up’ where he goes, ‘The more emotion I put into it, the harder I rock.' That’s the sort of approach that I have with this film — that the more emotion that I put in, title: First they came ... text: a clergyman and as a leading voice of penance and reconciliation for the German people after World War II. His statement, sometimes presented as a poem, is well-known, frequently quoted, and is a popular model for describing the dangers of political apathy. The statement was published in a book by Milton Mayer, "They Thought They Were Free" (1955), based on interviews he had conducted in Germany several years earlier. The quotation was circulated by civil rights activists and educators in the United States in the late 1950s. Some research traces the text to several speeches given by Niemöller in 1946. title: Trevor Denman text: Racecourse and Hollywood Park Racetrack. In December 2015, Denman announced that he would be retiring as Santa Anita's race caller after 33 years. He plans to continue calling races at Del Mar, while spending the rest of the time either on his Minnesota farm or traveling. He is best known for the phrase "And away they go...", spoken as the horses emerge from the starting gate. Some other phrases that Denman has coined are popular with racing fans, such as "scraping the paint", used to describe a horse who is saving ground (running very close to the inner rail). Another