Luke Kruytbosch

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Luke Kruytbosch is an American Thoroughbred horse racing announcer. He is best known as the on-track public-address voice of Churchill Downs and The Kentucky Derby from 1999-2006.

Kruytbosch began announcing horse races on the Arizona County Fair circuit while attending the University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program. After college he began announcing both Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racing throughout the southwest. Six times he called the world's richest Quarter Horse race, The All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs. In 1996 he was named Track Announcer at Hollywood Park, then in 1999 he moved on to Churchill Downs in Louisville,Kentucky. Kruytbosch has also done voice-over work on commercials, including a national ad for Hertz and has voiced-over racecalls on television shows including CBS's Martial Law and The Sentinel.