I have been given offers from Exeter and Southampton unis and to my mums horror I am a lot more interested in the riding at the unis than the geography degree!! The polo teams train together. And from what I've heard, to be in the riding club you have to pay something like £20/wk to have one...
I thought it was a bit wierd... if I was someone who didn't know much about showjumping it wouldn't really inspire me to watch more because it just seemed to be blaming lots of people for what the BBC were making out to be as no british wins. They were showing lots of fences being knocked down...