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Equestrian sports fans worldwide will be able to watch the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Farnam, thanks to the first-ever LIVE webcasts of this celebrated event. Considered the zenith in equestrian eventing competition in the United States, NBCSports.com, in conjunction with MediaZone, Equestrian Events, Inc., the producer of the event, and the United States Equestrian Federation, will provide coverage at NBCSports.MediaZone.com. This year�s Rolex Kentucky CCI****, a 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 26th through the 29th and will be broadcast on NBC television as a one-hour special Sunday, May 6th at 5:00 PM EDT. Ultimate fans can experience LIVE webcasts of all three phases for the low cost of just $7.99 for all four days. As the only four-star event in the Western Hemisphere, The Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event serves as a premier competition that features the best horses, riders and international stars. Notable past riders include a bevy of Olympic medalists such as 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. This is the latest offering available via the new NBCSports/MediaZone co-branded broadband video site at NBCSports.MediaZone.com. NBCSports.com and Social TV pioneer MediaZone have combined to present the 2006 ING New York City Marathon, FIS World Ski Championships, World Luge Championships and World Curling Championships as part of their joint initiative. The NBCSports/MediaZone partnership enables sports fans to view unique content from both NBC Sports' programming lineup and from MediaZone's catalogue, including world-class tennis, rugby and basketball. �Last year, thanks to the initiative of our webmaster, Evan Haller, we presented our first-ever LIVE webcast on the event website featuring our most popular Cross-Country location, the Head of the Lake,� said Jane Atkinson, event director and executive vice president of Equestrian Events, Inc. �We received an incredible response and are very excited to work with NBC, Carr-Hughes Productions and the U.S. Equestrian Federation to bring all four days of this year�s competition to fans around the world. For those who can�t make it to Kentucky, this is the perfect opportunity to see the action as it is happening!� "The NBCSports.com webcast helps promote horse sports to fans all over the world while extending the investment in the production of the NBC telecast into another medium," said John Long, CEO of the USEF. "We are excited that NBC is expanding their coverage of our sport with Rolex Kentucky as their first equestrian webcast. �NBC Sports and NBCSports.com is committed to delivering the excitement and passion of Olympic sports on all of our platforms,� says Perkins Miller, senior vice president, digital media, NBC Sports & Olympics. �The Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event is a great opportunity for us to provide LIVE sports video to an audience who is passionate about their sport and hungry for more content.� �We�re excited to provide this dynamic and interactive viewing experience of The 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event with our trusted partner NBC,� said Chris Ott, sports division director, MediaZone. �We have experienced ongoing success via the relationship we have fostered with NBC, and this latest compelling equestrian offering reinforces our strength in joining forces to provide the most sought-after sport content online to date.� 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. To check out further information on the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event and LIVE webcasts please visit the Rolex Kentucky website at www.rk3de.org or NBCSports.MediaZone.com. About NBCSports.com NBCSports.com, launched in September 2006, is one of the fastest growing sports content websites on the Internet. It provides comprehensive sports coverage, including scores, stats and analysis for all the major sports including the NFL, College Football, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, PGA TOUR, College Basketball, Poker, Tennis and more. NBCSports.com has also been at the forefront of the Internet�s growing demand for original broadband sports programming, with both live pre-game programming for Notre Dame Football and the NHL, as well as its live streaming webcasts including the FIS World Ski Championships and the NYC Marathon. The site also features stories and features from some of the industry�s foremost sportswriters including Alan Abrahamson, John Walters and Tom Curran, an extensive video library of both news coverage and full-length NBC Sports programming, a variety of interactive features and blogs from a number of NBC Sports broadcasters and professional athletes. The fantasy sports, including football, baseball, basketball, hockey, NASCAR and golf, are powered by AllStarStats and Rotoworld, companies that were acquired in September of 2006 in order to supplement the offerings of NBCSports.com. Rotoworld.com site is the highest-trafficked, fantasy sports content site on the Internet. About MediaZone MediaZone is a leading global online broadcaster specializing in professionally-produced sports, international and entertainment video programming. MediaZone has established lasting exclusive partnerships with leading media brands including AOL and NBC Sports and is the official online broadcast partner for major events such as Wimbledon and SANZAR rugby. The company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in China and Europe. MediaZone is a division of MIH Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Naspers (Nasdaq:NPSN). For more information, please visit: MediaZone.com. About Equestrian Events, Inc. (EEI) 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.