Ralph Siraco

Host of Race Day Las Vegas

A veteran of more than 40 years in the sports media business, Ralph Siraco achieved triple threat status through his career, successfully working in radio, television and print. Although his strength is horse racing, Siraco’s knowledge covers a multitude of sports, and his company has produced several sports betting related shows in the 1990s.

Siraco began his career in the mid-1970s at Hollywood Park, where he quickly became the head of the track’s radio and television department. Over the years, he also held the positions as a track announcer at Hollywood Park, Garden State Park and Fairplex Park for both Thoroughbred, Harness, Quarter Horse and Arabian breeds, as well as a radio/TV talent, packager and producer. Siraco helped Turfway Park Race Track launch the first horse racing simulcast network in the state of Kentucky leading to the Kentucky Simulcast Racing network in 1985, and then later did the same for the Northern California State Fair racing circuit. Siraco was the Las Vegas reporter for the weekly “Thoroughbred Digest” show on ESPN network, featuring the Kentucky Derby Future Book odds from both the Las Vegas Hilton Super Book and Caesars Palace race book in 1988-89. In addition, produced and reported LIVE cuts-ins from the VIP Kentucky Derby parties in Caesars Palace event center on the Kentucky Derby ESPN telecasts those years.

After relocating to Las Vegas in 1987, he produced and hosted the first locally-based Race Day Las Vegas television show on KBLR TV 39, Cable 9, in 1995, that was short-live when the station change format to Hispanic programing months after the show’s launch. Siraco then turned the Race Day Las Vegas brand into the popular and long-running Las Vegas radio show in September of 1996. Now the longest continuous running local daily media outlet for horse racing in Las Vegas, with a worldwide distribution via the Race Day Las Vegas Internet Web Sites, radio station phone apps and streaming. He returned to barter time on KBLR 39 in 1997 to bring in the first Dubai World Cup television signal via satellite to Las Vegas, won by the American Champion Cigar.

He served concurrently as the Turf Editor of the Las Vegas Sun newspaper for eight years, until the paper ceased its afternoon operations in 2005. He was also the Las Vegas-based contributing writer to the Daily Racing Form, horse racing’s premier publication during that period as well. He is perhaps best known, though, as the creator, producer and host of Race Day Las Vegas, which has covered all aspects of horse racing, five days a week, 52 weeks a year, going on 24 consecutive years in Las Vegas. His company, Siraco Productions, LTD, Inc., continues to explore Las Vegas-based racing and sports programming opportunities through these exciting expanding times of sports and race wagering.