Full Coverage DVDs Available of the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, Presented By Farnam

Lexington, KY - Complete unedited coverage of the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Farnam, will be available on a set of DVDs that will be produced daily during the competition.

This year’s Rolex Kentucky CCI****, an FEI Qualifying Competition and U.S. Equestrian Federation Selection Trial for the 2008 Olympic Games, returns to the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY, April 26-29. Separate DVDs of America’s only Four Star Three-Day Event will be available for each day of competition for $19.95 per day. The DVDs will show all of the rides for the particular day (Thursday and Friday Dressage, Saturday Cross-Country and Sunday Show Jumping) unedited and without commentary other than the field announcer.

Carr-Hughes Productions, producer of the NBC and international telecasts of the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, in conjunction with the Event’s organizer, Equestrian Events, Inc., and Productions East Video, is making the DVDs available. “For those fans who can’t make the trip to Kentucky, this will be the next best thing to being at the Kentucky Horse Park,” said Bob Hughes of Carr-Hughes Productions. “It will be strictly video, without commentary, but viewers will see everything that those lucky enough to be at the event get to see. It will be a tape for true fans of the sport.”

The DVDs of each day will be available online for those who can’t make it to Lexington and will be available for sale at the Kentucky Horse Park the day after each phase of competition. The DVDs may be ordered by going to http://www.carr-hughes.com/videos/index.cfm. The event DVDs for Rolex Kentucky will be priced as follows and Carr-Hughes will take advance orders until April 15:
1 day of events- $19.95
2 days of events- $36.95
3 days of events- $52.95
4 days of events- $69.95
Plus a shipping and handling charge for U.S. orders of $6.95. New York residents should add 7% sales tax. All orders will be shipped within four weeks.

These DVDs are in addition to the Event’s regular fully-produced, broadcast quality highlight DVD and videotape that are available for sale each year after the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event. Those sell for $35 each and are also available on line at http://www.carr-hughes.com/videos/index.cfm or at the Event’s official website at www.rk3de.org.

The Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event can also be seen on television on NBC television as a one-hour special on Sunday, May 6, from 5:00-6:00 p.m. EDT.

The 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Farnam, will run a CCI4* without Steeplechase (short format) and the 10th championship for the U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation Pinnacle Trophy, signifying the zenith in Eventing competition in the United States.

Last year’s Rolex Kentucky, a competition testing some of the world’s most athletic horses in dressage, cross-country and show jumping, attracted a record 90,748 people over the four days of the competition.

The only Four Star Event in the Western Hemisphere, the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Farnam, is the premier competition for the top horses and riders in Eventing. Past winners include a bevy of Olympic Medalists: Bruce Davidson, David and Karen O’Connor and Kim Severson of the United States, New Zealand’s Blyth Tait, Pippa Funnell of Great Britain and Andrew Hoy of Australia.

The competition features this country’s best horses and riders and international stars vying for their share of $200,000 in prize money and a chance at the $250,000 Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing. The winning owner will be awarded $65,000 and the winning rider will receive a Rolex timepiece. The classic Kentucky Julep Cup is presented to each as a reminder of their singular accomplishment.

Due in part to the success and proven organization of the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, the Kentucky Horse Park was chosen as the site for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in 2010. This will mark the first time the Games, which feature World Championships in eight equestrian disciplines, are being held outside of Europe.

Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event organizer, Equestrian Events, Inc. (EEI), is a non-profit charitable corporation created in 1975 to stage the 1978 World Three-Day Event Championships, the first time those championships had been held outside of Europe. Following the success of those World Championships, the U.S. Equestrian Federation asked EEI to organize an annual Three-Day Event in the spring and the Kentucky Three-Day Event was born. Rolex Watch U.S.A. became title sponsor in 1981.

For more information on the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Farnam, please visit the Rolex Kentucky website at www.rk3de.org.