When American Pharoah goes for the Triple Crown on Saturday at Belmont Park, the world will hear the call from a veteran race track announcer. Roger Clark visited him in the announcer's booth to talk about the chance to be a part of racing history and he filed this report. 

Larry Collmus has called a lot of races in a 30-year career as a track announcer. So is he excited to be the voice letting everyone know what's happening in Saturday's Belmont Stakes? You bet.

"I've never called a horse that's won the Triple Crown and nobody has since 1978 so it definitely makes things quite a bit more interesting," says Collmus.

He's been the television announcer of every Triple Crown race since 2011. This year he also became the voice of the New York Racing Association's tracks, replacing the legendary Tom Durkin, who retired. Collmus' call of the Belmont will be heard by racing fans at the track and worldwide on the TV broadcast.

“We've listened to all of these great calls from the 70s of when Secretariat won and Affirmed and Seattle Slew and it would be pretty cool to have my call be one of those," Collmus says.

Of course, Larry Collmus is pumped up to call this big race, but even he suspects that not many people will hear his call here at the track if American Pharoah is leading down the stretch.

"It's more like—it's a call for, not now, but for later, for history. Where people can go back and watch it over and over again. But when the events happening, everybody is screaming and yelling and they don't even know what you said," he says.

Collmus got his first announcing job at 18, falling in love with the sport after hanging around the press box at the Maryland State Fair race grounds, where his dad operated the sound system. He's seen so many race horses since then. So does he think he think American Pharoah will make history?

"Here's the thing. I think American Pharaoh is clearly the best horse coming into the Belmont Stakes. But we have had that happen before where the best horse has come in and not won the triple crown like a Smarty Jones," Collmus says.  

As Collmus says: Can he do it? Absolutely. Will he do it? We're all going to have to find out.