Conference noted::equitation

    
    Sorry for the ignorance, but where is it being held ?
    
    Does anyone know if it will be shown on television - perhaps Satellite
    TV ?
    
    Regards
    Sandra

    It is being held in The Hague, Holland.
    
    I would have thought it would be on satellite televison.
    
    Wendy
    

    CBC(Canadian) mentioned earlier this year that they would be broadcasting
    the WEG. CBC is freely available on satellite and, if you're close
    enough to a major Canadian city, via antenna. CBC did several hours 
    coverage of the last WEG 4 years ago and it was pretty good. We got it 
    over our regular antenna(we're only 120 miles from Vancouver) I haven't 
    seen the current WEG in the schedule yet though. 
    
    I'll holler if I see it. I've looked through next week's satellite TV 
    schedule already and didn't see it. Our satellite TV listing runs 
    from Sunday to Saturday so, unless it's Sunday of next week, it probably 
    won't be for a couple weeks yet. 

    CBC is very good for broadcasting Equestrian events, they signed
    a 3 year contract with Spruce Meadows in Calgary for all the major
    Show Jumping Events. 
    
    I did not know that they would televise this though, because I have
    been waiting for years to see Equestrian events from the World Cup
    etc. on TV and I have yet to see it.  If I hear anything hear in
    Canada about times or dates etc. I will inform you.
    
    Ayn

    >I did not know that they would televise this though, because I have
    >been waiting for years to see Equestrian events from the World Cup
    >etc. on TV and I have yet to see it. 
    
    The CBC don't typically broadcast World Cup events. Those are annual
    championships in dressage and showjumping sponsored by Volvo. 
    
    The last World Equestrian Games were held in Stockholm in 1990. CBC 
    sent Terry Loebel(sp?) and that great white haired announcer that 
    retired last year to Stockholm as commentators. They covered mostly 
    showjumping and some dressage but also included highlights of the endurance 
    competitions, carriage driving, etc. It was on their "Sports Weekend"
    show for 2 different weekends. That's where I expect they'll cover it
    this time too.
    
    John

    Re: previous few
    
    In the United States the July 15 issue of "Chronicle of the Horse" had
    quite a comprehensive listing of the members of each team in each
    discipline for the major countries competing. Just a list of names for
    the less well known equestrian nations.
    
    In Europe the EuroSport satellite channel carried the 1990 World
    Equestrian Games from Stockholm. It's the only time I have been happy
    with an airline screw up. My flight from Heathrow was cancelled; BA put
    me up in a local hotel and I watched the WEG Eventing Cross Country on
    TV. Eurosport also carried the European Championships from
    Achselschwang last September when I was at European DECUS in Montreux.
    
    As far as U.S. TV coverage is concerned I have not heard of any. It's
    possible that a set of videotapes will be produced as happened for the
    1990 WEG.

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Article 42928 of rec.equestrian:
Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
From: [email protected]
Subject: WEG,DAY 2, BAD NEWS 
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 16:35:35 

Day Two of the WEG...

Britain is in first place after the dressage phase of the 3-day event.  That
was because of the first place standing of Mary Thomson on King William.  Her
42 points could not be topped by any of the riders in the second group of the
total of 94 who rode today (Thursday).

Fellow British rider Karen Dixon on Get Smart moved into a second place tie
with France's Jean Teulere on Rodosto.  Both have 49.8 points.  The US's Karen
O'Connor is now in fifth place on Biko after Thursday's riders performed.

Blyth Tait of New Zealand  is in fifth place with 50.6 points--don't have his
mount's name--but the 1990 WEG 3-day event champion has his favorite phase, the
endurance ride, coming next.  Bruce Davidson of the US, who has won the world
3-day event championship three times is in 12th place at 54.2 points.

Following Britain in the team standings is the US and New Zealand.  France
stands fourth with Germany fifth.

In the main WEG stadium, the dressage competition began with the first half of
the riders performing for the three-judge panel.

Defending WEG Champion Nicole Uphoff-Becker of Germany is first with a score of
1,742, or 74.13 percent.  Dutch riders Sven Rothenberger and Ellen Bontje are
in second and third respectively wth 1,693 and 1,684 points.  Fourth is Karin
Rehbein of Germany with 1.675 points and Kyra Kyrklund of Finland is in fifth
with 1,639.  Krya won the silver at Stockholm four years ago.  The second half
rides tomorrow.  If I can get names of mounts, I'll post them later tonight.

Stay tuned.  If there's more on this, I'll post and I'll post Friday's results
of the WEG, but then I"m going on a long-planned vacation.  Back on 8/6, and
I'll summarize and post again.  Sorry...

    I have heard via the grapevine that the US got the bronze in Dressage. 
    And a Dutch rider on one of the Olympic *** (maybe Bonfire?) won the
    Individual Gold! 

    Here is some news from the Frankfurt Allegemeine newspaper here on the
    WEG:
    
    Dressage - Kuer
    
    1.  Anky von Grunsven (NDL)		Olympic Bonfire		83.08
    2.  Klaus Balkenhol (GER)		Goldstern		82.40
    3.  Karin Rehbein (GER)		Donnerhall		77.07
    4.  Kyra Kyrklund (FIN)		Edinburg		74.88
    5.  Robert Dover (USA)		Devereaux		74.63
    6.  ?? Desme (FRA)			Thor			73.80
    7.  Gyulia Dallos (HUN)		Aktion			72.53
    8.  Kathleen Raine (USA)		Avontuur		71.26
    
    Grand Prix Special:
    
    1.  Isabel Werth (GER)		Gigolo			1605 pts.
    2.  Nicole Uphoff-Becker (GER)	Rembrandt		1592 pts.
    3.  Sven Rothenberger (NDL)		Dondolo			1495 pts.
    4.  ?? Faurie (GBR)			Virtu			1469 pts.
    5.  ?? Bontje (NDL)			Heuriger		1452 pts.
    6.  Anna Merveldt-Steffens (IRL)	Flashdancer		1401 pts.
    7.  ?? Staub (SWITZ)		Dukaat			1387 pts.
    8.  Ulla Hakansson (SWE)		Flyinge Tolstoy		1379 pts.
    9.  Pia Laus (ITA)			Adrett			1377 pts.
    9.  ?? van Olst (DEN)		Chevalier je		1377 pts.
    
    There was an article that discussed the Grand Prix results - Rembrandt
    and Uphoff-Becker won with the highest score ever - 1819 pts. (if I'm
    reading the German correctly :-))
    
    For the 3-day results (Individual):
    
    1.  Jefferies (NZL)			Bounce			55.60
    2.  Trapp (USA)			Molokai			56.80
    3.  Dixon (GBR)			Get Smart		60.80
    4.  Thomson (GBR)			King William		64.00
    5.  Pantsu (FIN)			Cyna			65.80
    6.  Bigot (FRA) 			Twist La Beige		67.20
    7.  Overesch-Boeker (GER)		Watermill Stream	68.00
    8.  Teuleure (FRA)			Rodosto			68.20
    9.  Cribb (??)			Navarone		68.80
    10. Green (AUS)			Chatsby			71.80
    
    Team Results:
    
    1.  Great Britain
    2.  France
    3.  Germany
    4.  Australia
    5.  Ireland
    6.  New Zealand
    7.  Italy
    8.  Netherlands
    9.  Finland
    10. Canada
    
    I was able to watch some of the cross-country on TV here on Saturday
    afternoon - I saw Mark Todd and Just and Ace take a fall at the second
    water combination, which left them out of the running for a
    medal/place.  Mark flipped over the head of his horse when it refused
    to jump out of the water combination.  He was unhurt and remounted and
    continued.  I saw Bruce Davidson have the same trouble with his horse
    (can't remember the name) in the first water combination, and he
    re-mounted and continued on course.  Both incurred time penalties.
    
    Janet
    	
    
    

    Brilliant news for the British Event team, right on top of the world! 
    
    A friend of mine was lucky enough to have groomed for a Swedish Event
    rider and he said the conditions were not very good at all.. 
    
    Apparently the cross country course was a 2 hour drive from where the
    main stadium was, the heat was intense with horses dehydrating BEFORE
    going cross country.  Some horses were affected by the heat so much
    they were not allowed to run after being examined in the 10 minuite box
    by a vet.
    
    I wonder what its going to be like at the Olympics in Atlanta?

    Moderator please feel free to move this....
    
    Thought that I would just let you all know that on friday Vaughn
    Jeffries the new World Three Day Event Champion visited the yard where
    I keep my horse.  He went to see one of his old Advanced event horses
    who someone has on loan.  He was even introduced my horse by my friend
    who told him a little bit about my horse.  So theres my claim to fame
    even though I missed him!
    
    

    The only schedule announcement I've seen so far for WEG coverage in
    North America is this:
    	Sunday Dec 18th 1994, ESPN, 4 PM (Eastern?) 1 *hour*
    
    I found this announcement in a recent issue of The Chronicle. It didn't
    say which time zone the 4 PM was but, since they and most of their
    readers are on the east coast, I'm guessing it's Eastern time.
    
    They're going to cover a 2 week show in an hour? 

    Thanks to being on several equestrian junk mail catalog lists I have
    seen two sets of videotapes of the World Equestrian Games. One is a set
    of six produced by Equestrian Vision in the U.K. for about $200 or $40
    each. The other is a set of three tapes costing in total somewhat less
    but still $40+ each which are in the current Dover (Wellesley, MA)
    catalog supplement.  The Equestrian Vision set devotes one tape to each
    discipline - Show jumping, three day event, driving, dressage,
    endurance and a "highlights" tape. Previous Equestrian Vision tapes I
    have purchased have been reasonably good. The producer of the Dover
    tapes is unknown to me. I an debating whether it's worth purchasing
    either set. 
    
    Incidentally the WEG Organizers in Holland are in bankruptcy to the
    tune of $7 Million. 

    If the Equestrian Vision tapes are anywhere *near* as good this time as
    they were for the last WEG, they're worth the price of $200 for a set
    of 6. We rented them from a local tack shop last time and they were
    *excellent*. Each tape was well over an hour. Most were in the 90-100
    minutes range.
    
    How about posting the address? Just in case my tack shop doesn't get them
    this time. 

    Re: .14
    
    I must have already heaved the catalog into the trash. However I found
    tapes in the Miller's Fall/Winter 1994 Catalog as well:
    
    Volume 1 - Showjumping/Endurance/Three Day, 90 min, #4102-2, $29.95
    Volume 2 - Driving/Vaulting/Dressage, 90 min, #4103-2, $29.95
    Both tapes - #4103-2, $49.95 for 3 hours
    
    Miller's P.O Box 883, Rutherford, NJ 07070-0883	1-800-553-7655
    
    Dover Saddlery Fall/Winter 1994 Supplement
    
    Volume I - Dressage (70 min), Vaulting (20 min), #18GA, $29.70
    Volume II - Three Day (60 min), Driving (30 min), #18GB, $29.70
    Volume III - Jumping (45 min), Endurance (45 min), #18GC, $29.70
    All three - #18GD, $84.90 for 4.5 hours
    
    Dover Saddlery, P.O. Box 5837, Holliston, MA 01746	1-800-989-1500
    (or from their store on Route 16 in Wellesley, MA)
    
    These sets of tapes, from the illustrations of the boxes in the
    catalogs, appear to be produced by the same unnamed outfit. Note that
    the titles on the boxes in the illustrations do not match the
    descriptions in either case!
    
    For comparison, Equestrian Video U.K. prices are as follows:
    
    1. Dressage (90 min) �19.99
    2. Eventing (90 min) �19.99 
    3. Show Jumping (60 min) �14.99
    4. Carriage Driving (60 min) �14.99
    5. Endurance/Vaulting (60 min) �14.99
    6. Highlights of all disciplines (60 min) �10.99

    Set of 1 - 4 �59.99, Set of 1 - 6 �79.99
    
    PLUS $5 per tape for NTSC (U.S.) versions plus �10 postage and packing
    for the first tape and �3 per tape thereafter for the U.S. and no
    reduction for V.A.T. (17.5% U.K. sales tax) exemption.
    
    �1 = U.S. $1.55 approximately, that's $210 for 7 hours of tape.
    
    Equestrian Video, Palmerston House, The Street, Cowfold, Horsham, West
    Sussex, RH13 8BP, England. From the U.S. 011-44-403-864173  
    
    I did buy the Equestrian Videos of the 1990 WEG in Stockholm which are
    well done but interest in them drops dramatically with time. I must
    have well over 100 hours of taped equestrian events which I either made
    myself, bought, or recorded from cable. I can't remember, for example,
    when I last looked at the tape I bought of the 1986 Three Day
    Championships in Gawler, South Australia, which is why I debate whether
    to buy any more.
    
    While there is no shortage of people who want to borrow these tapes
    once I have them, I question what horse folk really think the tapes are
    worth; probably not the $30 to $40 charged for them. TV coverage of
    equestrian sports is shrinking because the media/advertisers don't
    think the audience is worth the cost. I heard in the U.K. that one of
    the small TV production companies that covers horse sports is
    struggling to stay in business. TV coverage, particularly of the Three
    Day cross country competition, is quite expensive to put on. Therefore
    I expect less rather than more coverage in future, particularly given
    the TripleCast fiasco in the U.S. for the Barcelona Olympics ($100
    million loss).