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Dávila was 27 years old when he first was assigned to cover races on Puerto Rican radio in 1971. His became a familiar face and voice with Puerto Rican sports fans, both horse racing and other sports' ones, and Dávila became known as "the national voice of horse racing" on the tiny
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