At 08:53:44 on 22.06.10, Flicka wrote:
Grrrr-the Beeb have just dropped one of my favourite events from their schedule-the Hickstead Derby. Why are equestrian events losing out to other sports? Read the blog and then post your views below.
http://blog.trotontv.com/2010/06/at-moment-i-have-to-hunt-for-something.html

At 09:17:33 on 22.06.10, NMH wrote:
Very disappointing. The march of Sky is thus promoted- horsey sports are hardly a niche interest

At 10:13:18 on 22.06.10, kibby wrote:
we only got to see the tiniest of snippets of the equestrian at beijing olympics and sbs played replays for about an hour.. that was it!

At 11:39:22 on 22.06.10, bazz94 wrote:
this is due to the horse industry is an elitist and high society culture and therefore even though there is demand it does not suit to the general public. Ratings in the medium it is expressed in don't achieve high enough due to not everyone can not relate as easily compared to soccer or football (apparantly XD). Aww man I've listened WAY too much in Media in school!! ahaha but yeh I agree, no horse stuff but the races each sat. in Australia... we had some eventing thing in Jan but that was like 1 hour! ONE HOUR AIN'T ENOUGH!!!! Australia's free air TV also recently adapted a sport channel and all it ever shows is damn wrestling that is completely ACTED OUT and makes me wonder who actually watches it and takes it seriously!?

At 11:44:05 on 22.06.10, bazz94 wrote:
* due to not everyone can relate....

At 12:44:14 on 22.06.10, kibby wrote:
haha, i feel your pain bazz! stupid one, all it has is the bloody nfl, wrestling or cars..

At 13:58:29 on 22.06.10, bazz94 wrote:
aha too true kibby... although I do like it when they put on the snow boarding and bull riding. The Slam Ball looks HEAPS fun =P

At 20:51:30 on 22.06.10, ToriSilverson wrote:
it really annoys me...they will cover hours of golf (which, in my opinion, would make mr happy suicidal) and yet they axe really popular events like hickstead. lets face it horseiding is much more exciting than half the stuff they cover.

At 21:00:43 on 22.06.10, Em28 wrote:
That is pants! Something that I seem to find on TV is repeats, repeats and more repeats!!!! Everything is repeated over and over again, suppose it is cheap tv! But yeah completely agree the Derby is good fun to watch and it is a shame that it wont be shown, not even on horse and country TV :-( With it now being relegated to sky sports, this will decrease popularity and interest further, not sure how someone can watch the derby and not get involved (even a little bit)?? Although I realise I am biased!

At 21:02:03 on 22.06.10, artograffi wrote:
Unfortunately, people still think anything to do with horses is an elitist sport. This is partly due to writers like Jilly Cooper and "Riders" Nothing could be less elitist or "posh" than show jumping, yet people imagine all the top show jumping riders are upper class, wealthy people. We all know this is utter rubbish but the horse world, especially the show jumpers need to push to the public that the owners may be rich but the riders are where they are due to hard work and masses of talent. Nobody thinks jockeys are posh or rich. Well the sport should promote show jumping riders as the talented sportsmen and women that they are.
http://www.artograffi.co.uk