much as i hate to give him any publicity, "former show jumper" on tv

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tonight at 7.30. Oliver Skeete, remember him? talked about being as good as the Whitakers and making it onto the next Olympic team. well, i competed against him back in the early 90s, at Stowe Ridings, having heard all the hype... he was on a very genuine, long-suffering mare, and seemed to have a trainer who knew her stuff, but didn't look very safe round a 1.10 course if my memory serves me right... anyway, proving what good p.r. can do, he's a household name and back on t.v. tonight...
*shakes head in amazement*
i wonder what i'd have to do to get to be a household name?
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hahaha succinct as ever. well, i hope you mean him and not me!

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PMSL...him!!!!

lets hope he has either a hairnet on..or at least had his bl00dy hair cut...
 
umm, Channel 5, it's about diet doctors, he's on there cos he eats a pound of cheese a day. i'm sure he's going to look just gorgeous...
i honestly can't remember if i beat him, all those years ago, but i chuffing well hope so!
 
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umm, Channel 5, it's about diet doctors, he's on there cos he eats a pound of cheese a day.

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Heart attack waiting to happen (well on can hope!!)
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Gosh no, i'm glad you haven't! he was a relentless self-publicist, did a lot of "i'm going to the next Olympics", "i'm going to be the first ever rastafarian showjumper", "the British Team is such a closed shop but i'll get on it" kind of stuff... big words from someone who didn't look as if he could have ridden round a Foxhunter, tbh...
 
A Foxhunter??? PMSL!!!!!!

he'd be lucky to have got through to a final round of a chase-me-charlie, Prat!!!!
 
What he has time for telly, told a friend of a friend (at a Maidstone nightclub) he was back show jumping and was going to be at the Kent County Show next year.
 
He might well be at the Kent County next year, but not as a competitor!!

Remember seeing a programme about him, competing on a schoolmaster show jumper who was doing its best to jump and catch the bloke over the other side!

Remember him spouting off about getting to the Olympics in 4yrs time as this SJ lark was cinch.

Suprisingly, no one took him seriously.....and neither did the horses!!
 
The really sad thing was that he managed to get some serious sponsorship when there are genuinely talented people out there who would (figuratively speaking) give their right arm for what he had been given and would actually have benefitted from it. I remember seeing him somewhere with a beautiful brand spanking new lorry and feed etc etc. and thinking what a waste it was.
 
Arrrgh! Hate him!


Found this though:

"He intends to represent Barbados at the Olympics in Sydney in 2,000, show jumping under the Barbadian flag. This will be the first time a West Indian Island has sent a show jumper to the Olympics.

Oliver has caught the public’s imagination and has become a media celebrity noted for his quick wit and versatile but determined personality.

Oliver Skeete was the first black show jumper. One reporter claimed: ‘Oliver Skeete has made the biggest leap of all from the rapscallion life of city back streets to high society on horseback’.

Oliver has won widespread support from leading show jumpers and has been warmly received by what has been quoted the blue rinse set.

Many believe Oliver gives the show jumping sport the opportunity to reverse its decline in popularity and return to prime time TV. "

*singgers*
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"Complete with dreadlocks, Oliver returned to Barbados for a short spell, planning to settle for good in the country in which he was born. He enjoyed a stint as a Barbados bus driver – there considered a fun occupation for extrovert people. He says: ‘There were none of those dreary, miserable faces you see on London buses. Everybody was singing, laughing and joking. Sometimes a big mama got up and did a little jig in the aisle. People got on with chickens in cages and baskets of fruit on their heads. The passengers all cheered, "Yeah, Rastaman, go fast, Rastaman".

He then spent a period of time as a beach bum, picking up single foreign women as they sunbathed on the white sands, before returning to England. "
 
Yes he was in one of the James Bond Films.

I believe he kept a horse at Ealing riding Stables for a while.

He phoned me when I was organising the Edinburgh to London Ride for Life as he wanted to join us for the last part of the ride through London to Buckingham Palace. That was the last time I had any contact with him.
 
is Oliver still competing even? havent seen him for years! The guy was a joke and more in it for himself rather than a true horse lover!

God, surprised he even stayed on half the time lol!
 
First black showjumper my fecking arse

*apologises for rude language*

He was a terrible rider. Wearing a red jacket and sitting on a horse round a course of jumps (cos he never actually rode the damn things) does NOT make you a showjumper.
 
He was a total pleb. Was very amusing at the time when he went on about how he was going to get to the Olympics when like you say, he was only jumping pissy little tracks (compared to Olympic level). What a moron. Another one of those " think horse riding is easy" types.
 
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