2 ‘wife’ horses make for crazy call at N.J. track

Sunday's seventh race at Monmouth Park sounded like a henpecked man quite confused about his marriage.

All because of a couple horses with crazy names.

The call by announcer Larry Collmus is so destined to become a classic, he was invited to discuss it last night on ESPN.

He never expected a finish like this, he said.

Here's how it went down, as transcribed from a couple of online videos:

"Mywifeknowseverything and Thewifedoesntknow are coming up, and they're moving together on the far turn.

". . . Into the final furlong, Mywifeknowseverything, Thewifedoesntknow, they're one-two. Of course, they are! Mywifeknowseverything in front. To the outside, Thewifedoesntknow."

The excitement in his voice builds as they near the finish line: "Mywifeknowseverything! Thewifedoesntknow! Mywifeknowseverything more than Thewifedoesntknow!"

Miss Tallahassee finished third.

Little Miss Macho was farther back, after a slow start.

"It was just a wacky coincidence," Collmus said by phone.

"Those two horses have absolutely no connection to each other. They have totally different owners and breeding."

Collmus, a 43-year-old bachelor, may have announced 50,000 races in his 25-year career, which these days includes winter stints at Gulfstream in South Florida.

But this race was especially memorable.

Maybe even more than the time he had to announce that a horse named Silky's Nuts had to be scratched.

See ESPN clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4a-QNBt_aM

See full call of the race: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpSmprqptSk&feature=email