HOBBS, NM—OCTOBER 1, 2014—Michael Wrona, who has announced some of the most prestigious horse races in the United States, Australia, and South America, will call at Zia Park this week from Saturday to Tuesday.

Wrona will be filling in for Zia Park announcer Jonathan Horowitz, who will be observing Yom Kippur in California.

A native of Brisbane, Australia, Wrona has announced in the United States since 1990 as the track announcer at Golden Gate Fields, Hollywood Park, Arlington Park, and countless other tracks. He described the 2000 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown, for a national radio audience.

In 2012, Wrona traveled to Argentina to commentate South America’s most prestigious race, the Gran Premio Internacional Carlos Pellegrini at Hipódromo de San Isidro near Buenos Aires, for HRTV.