Famed Rider to Serve as Commentator During Live Broadcast at 2007 Hampton Classic Horse Show
Bridgehampton, NY—August 7, 2007—Olympic Medalist Peter Leone will join WVVH-TV as an expert commentator for the Hampton Classic Horse Show live TV broadcasts from August 26 through Grand Prix Sunday, September 2.
WVVH-TV is the official Long Island television station of the Hampton Classic and will broadcast three hours of live competition and additional hours of taped highlights each day during the Classic. A broadcast partner of the Hampton Classic Horse Show since 1996, WVVH-TV provides extensive local television coverage of one of the world’s premier hunter-jumper horse shows.
WVVH is broadcast locally on UHF Chanel 50, Cablevision 78, and Verizon FiOS Channel 14 on Time Warner Cable’s video-on-demand system. The broadcasts can also be seen online at www.hamptonclassic.tv Last year over 2.5 million viewers watched the webstream in thirty countries worldwide.
Peter Leone, of Greenwich, CT, has been competing successfully on the grand prix circuit for three decades. He achieved a lifelong dream in 1996 when he represented the United States at the Atlanta Olympic Games and helped the U.S. win the team Silver Medal. He has extensive experience as an on camera equestrian commentator and will add his first hand knowledge as a participant and teacher of the sport to this worldwide broadcast. Mr. Leone runs Lionshare Farm and has competed and trained at the Hampton Classic Horse show for many years.
“We are so pleased that WVVH-TV, one of our long-time partners, has brought Peter aboard to be a new face of Hamptons Television,” said Hampton Classic Executive Director Shanette Barth Cohen. “His expertise and unique perspective as an active rider will further enhance WVVH’s coverage of the show. We are thrilled to welcome Peter to the Hampton Classic family.”
The Hampton Classic hosts exciting hunter/jumper competition from junior levels up to the pinnacle of the sport, grand prix show jumping, featuring the $150,000 FTI Grand Prix on Sunday, September 2. Other competition highlights include the bluhammock music Open Jumper class on Thursday, August 3h, the $15,000 Prudential Douglas Elliman Speed Derby and the $50,000 GREY GOOSE® Vodka FEI World Cup™ Qualifier CSI-W on Friday, August 31, the $25,000 Sotheby’s Real Estate Cup and the $10,000 Wölffer Estate Equitation Championship on Saturday, September 1, and the $25,000 Calvin Klein Show Jumping Derby and the $10,000 Hermès Hunter Classic on Grand Prix Sunday, September 2.
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