Charlsie Cantey

Charlsie Cantey ( Dearing; born c. 1946 in Raleigh, North Carolina), one of broadcasting's veteran thoroughbred horse racing analysts, is an American sportscaster who worked for ESPN (1985–2002), ABC Sports (1986–2000), WOR-TV (1975–1977), CBS Sports (1977–1986), USA Network (2002–2005) and NBC Sports (2000–2005).

Career Early career Cantey studied for two years at Mount Vernon College for Women then two years at George Washington University, graduating in 1968 despite missing class a number of times to ride horses. She was an exercise rider for Ruffian when Frank Whiteley first started training the filly in late 1973 in Camden, South Carolina, and she later became a horse trainer.

Cantey appeared on TV on What's My Line? as the trainer of a thoroughbred named Arlene Francis, which was named after one of the show's stars; the real Arlene Francis failed to guess her occupation.

When Cantey was an exercise rider at Belmont Park in 1975,

Family Cantey is the younger sister of Barbara Howar. Charlsie's father Charles Oscar Dearing wanted to name his son after himself, but she turned out to be a girl.

Her first husband was trainer Joseph B. Cantey whom she married in 1969 in Camden, South Carolina. By 1976, Charlsie was 30, and her husband had been a trainer for five years. They have one son, J.B. Cantey, a pediatrician.

Cantey is married to Douglas Davidson and lives in Okatie, South Carolina.