September
21, 2006
NBC
Special on 2006 FEI World Equestrian Championships presented by Rolex to Air this
Sunday, 4:30-6:00 p.m. EDT 
LEXINGTON,
KY— Circle the date and have your popcorn ready, this Sunday (September 24th)
NBC
will present 90 minutes of action-packed highlights of the 2006 FEI World Equestrian
Championships, which concluded in Aachen, Germany, earlier this month.
The broadcast airs from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. EDT. The show includes highlights of
the five individual and four team medalists from the U.S. The broadcast is presented
by Rolex, a major sponsor of the event in Aachen.
Veteran sportscaster
Kenny Rice will anchor the broadcast from the Kentucky Horse Park. Multiple
Olympic Games medalist Jimmy Wofford will provide the color commentary
and NBC’s Donna Brothers, a specialist in horse racing coverage, will
report on the action from Aachen. The broadcast is being underwritten by
the Commonwealth of Kentucky in preparation for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian
Games, which come to the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, in 2010.
“We feel it’s never too early to start showing people what these Games
are all about,” said Jack Kelly, CEO of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian
Games 2010. “Many people don’t understand the different disciplines
of the Games. This NBC broadcast following the high-profile coverage gives us
great exposure to introduce equestrian sports to a wider American audience than
ever before.” Beforehand, however, visitors to the Kentucky Horse Park
will get a sneak preview this Friday of some of the most accomplished riders in
the world at The Hagyard $50,000 CSI-W Grand Prix, World Cup Qualifier—a
qualifying event for the 2007 World Cup next April in Las Vegas. The competition
begins at 7:30 p.m. Several Olympic and 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games
medalists will compete at an international-level show jumping event, including
Beezie Madden, Margie Engle and McLain Ward from the Silver Medal-winning World
Champion show jumping competition in Aachen, Germany. In the Games that
recently concluded in Aachen, the United States Equestrian Federation® fielded
42 athletes competing in all seven disciplines and took home nine medals. The
USEF is headquartered at the Kentucky Horse Park and is the only National Governing
Body based in Kentucky. As in Aachen, The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games
2010, to be held at the Kentucky Horse Park, are the world championships of the
eight equestrian disciplines recognized by the International Equestrian Federation
(FEI), and are held every four years. The eight disciplines are dressage, driving,
endurance, eventing, para-equestrian, reining, show jumping and vaulting. Kentucky
2010 will be the first time the para-equestrian championship will be held at the
same time, and at the same venue, as the other seven disciplines. The nine
Team U.S.A. 2006 World Equestrian Championship medalists from Aachen were: Individual
Gold Medal—Vaulting
Megan Benjamin, Saratoga, CA
Individual
Silver Medal—Show Jumping
Beezie Madden, Cazenovia, NY
Individual
Silver Medal—Reining
Tim McQuay, Tigoa, TX
Individual Bronze
Medal—Reining
Aaron Ralston, Silt, CO
Individual Bronze
Medal—Eventing
Amy Tryon, Redmond, WA
Team Gold Medal—Reining
Dell
Hendricks, Tioga, TX
Matt Mills, Scottsdale, AZ
Tim McQuay, Tioga, TX
Aaron
Ralston, Silt, CO
Team Silver Medal—Vaulting
Megan Benjamin,
Saratoga, CA
Blake Dahlgren, Sun Valley, CA
Elizabeth Ioannou, Saratoga,
CA
Devon Maitozo, Simi Valley, CA
Rosalind Ross, Woodside, CA
Annalise
Van Vranken, Mays Landing, NJ
Team Silver Medal—Show Jumping
Margie
Engle, Wellington, FL
Laura Kraut, Wellington, FL
Beezie Madden, Cazenovia,
NY
McLain Ward, Brewster, NY
Team Bronze Medal—Dressage
Debbie
McDonald, Hailey, ID
Leslie Morse, Beverly Hills, CA
Steffen Petters, San
Diego, CA
Guenter Seidel, Cardiff, CA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For
more information, please contact Maria Partlow, Senior Vice President of Marketing
and Communications, at (859) 225-6941, or via e-mail at mpartlow@usef.org.
|
