In this Discussion
- bookielover October 2022
- detonator October 2022
- Markovina October 2022
- savethegame October 2022
- Thunderstruck October 2022
- Vincent_vega October 2022
Who's Online
0 Members & 32 Non Members
RICHARD CALLENDER
East Coast Racing
Was watching the races yesterday,and tuned into Thoroughbred Central Channel 528 on Foxtel. Richard Callender was the in house presenter.
Now, I hadn't seen him for a long time, and got a shock. The man has literally exploded. he doesn't have a neck. His head just connects with his body. He's fuken huge, and frankly, he's a heart attack or stroke waiting to happen. I actually like him, or should I say, used to actually, like him.
He was a stirrer, and used to express his views and didn't give a stuff about the powers that be.
Then he gets caught in that crook horse sale, for organising kickbacks on the sale of a horse with Waller's then foreman Liam Prior and gets rubbed out for 6 months, and disappears. When he comes back,he makes a few appearances on Sky, and next thing he's the CEO of the NSW trainers association.How the fk does that happen? Probably the old not what you know but who you know was responsible for that.
The second that happens, he becomes just another shill for Racing NSW and an anal orifice licker to Peter V'landys. Where he might have had a go at PVL in the past, now, PVL is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Richie wants everyone to know that the Everest is better than the Melbourne Cup in every which way, bla bla bla.
A bookie mate of mine in Sydney, reckons he's one of the more obnoxious blokes he's ever met.
Anyway, all that aside, he should be put forward by the Australian Medical Association, as an example of what not to do with your body, as you develop and mature. I may not like his opinions on racing anymore, as it's obvious he's working for the man, but he's about the same age as my oldest son, and it does sadden me when I see young men and women in their thirties and fourties exploding like he has.
+1 -1
SLIPPERGOLDEN, Thunderstruck, savethegame likes this post.
Comments
Don't hear much about the controversies re him if at all over here, always has been a vocal bugger(loud-mouthed so also assume he has his share of haters)which I don't mind say what you think.
Though now Raceshit oops sorry Racenet has a subscription requirement I can't even read his articles, did notice his bias in a headline re what's bigger the Everest or MC, it's no contest the Cup all day everyday imo.
I barely give a stuff about that showboat race and the same horse.keeps winning it!..and group 3 class horses get a gig if they have someone stump up the cash it's virtually a nothing race worth way too much money.
bookielover likes this post.
Waller should have been rubbed out too - completely disgraceful behaviour but when you are too far up the tree its “nothing to see here, move on”
But imagine a bank manager ripping off 50k…… where would he/she end up???
bookielover, Markovina likes this post.
bookielover likes this post.
hash, bookielover likes this post.
Good show, i have to admit
Markovina likes this post.
detonator likes this post.