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The BBC has announced that it will be broadcasting the Puissance class from the Olympia International Horse Show live on 15 December at 9pm. This is the first time in eight years that any equestrian sport has been on the BBC's mainstream schedule rather than being confined to sports programming. It is 15 years since viewers have been able to watch leading show jumpers attempt the big red wall in real time.

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Fantastic news......and can we also have the World Cup Qualifier....no....in fact, can we have the whole show broadcast every evening at 9pm like it was in the good old days please
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Wow that's great news!

Hopefully this will lead onto more and more coverage, we need more support for British showjumping from the public and in order to do that we need coverage! But well done BBC, perhaps all those emails we all sent moaning about lack of coverage at the WEG paid off after all!
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Equestrianism is becoming more and more popular, especially showjumping - It's fantastic to see that the BBC are listening to demand from veiwers and following the success of Only Fools On Horses the interest will be extremely high!
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Perhaps, as it's being televised live, they might try and go a bit higher than the usual (
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) 7'2 / 7'4.....perhaps a record attempt lol! I guess it depends on the field though....there are plenty of very good Puissance specialists in this country though
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Marvellous news - we must spread the word so the Beeb can see JUST how many viewers are interested. At last, the Beeb are listening to their viewers!
 
at last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i'll be watching and my childhood will come flooding back, just need then now the show the Prince Philip Games, The relay races (sorry don't know proper name of class) - so i can really shout and jump every jump, do all the bending races
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and what was the music they used called for opening tittles!!!
 
And being allowed to stay up late to watch - oh, and the black shetlands doing the scurry with Raymond Brooks-Ward doing the commentary - and dare I mention the CB Police horse doing their stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bring it all back - PLEASE!!!!
 
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and what was the music they used called for opening tittles!!!

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Well, according to a quick Google, it was this :-

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The theme most commonly used for equestrian coverage is 'A Musical Joke', arranged by Waldo de los Rios. Rios adapted the piece from Mozart's Symphony No 40. Rios also adapted many other classical works, as well as scoring several Hollywood films.


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The knock-out jumping was always a great one to watch too....two riders jumping head to head over symmetrical courses, with the winner progrssing to the next round
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That's brilliant, I will most definitely be hogging the remote, sofa and telly to watch that!
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Would be even better if they could also show more of the show live, but is that just being greedy?!

Hopefully it's the start of good things for equestrianism on tv!
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Do they still do the Showjumpers doing fancydress?? Used to love that too!!!!!!!!

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Oooh yes, that was fantastic. Geoff Billington used to be hysterical in it, imitating the other riders.
 
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Do they still do the Showjumpers doing fancydress?? Used to love that too!!!!!!!!

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Oooh yes, that was fantastic. Geoff Billington used to be hysterical in it, imitating the other riders.

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Wasn't it Harvey Smith and David Broome who always used to team up too !? Does anyone remember them trying to get the horse to lie down in the middle of the arena
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And Harvey Smith always dressed in drag and then all the clothes would fall off as he jumped the course!!!!!! Oh the good old days - and we watched in black and white!!!!
 
Brilliant news - hope it is a really exciting competition so everyone can see how exciting equestrian sports really are!

Puissance is a good choice of class too. Easy to understand and really dramatic.
 
Good news indeed - echo Rambo's view that live coverage each night as in "the good old days would be great". However I presume the BBC would have to outbid Eurosport for this to be done.
 
Fantastic! With the numbers of people taking part in riding as a leisure activity, and an even larger number interested in viewing equestrian activities, I'm amazed thet the BBC hasn't shown more showjumping on terrestrial TV. Seems that football has swamped the networks; but the BBC is a public service broadcaster, with a duty to represent the breadth of interest of its audience, so come on the Beeb, lets see more live equestrian events with skilled and interesting commentators! (There have been some real clunkers, who obviously know virtuallly nothing about eventing, for instance. It can't be that difficult to find really knowledgeable and media friendly and knowledgeable commentators, can it?)
 
hurray!! thats fab news. Do the TV companies realise how many people are interested in horses and how many people own them not only for recreational purposes but loads of us compete!!

I did look into a horsey tv channel some time ago as a friend works in that area of comms and sadly I could not invest enough for the set up!!

Advertising wise there would be plenty of takers, material wise its endless and popularity...well if Tesco's are still doing horsey products on line (which they are) doesnt that go to show television companies how mainstream horses are now??!

Well done the BBC but lets have more please!!
 
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