UK: SHOWJUMPER HARVEY SMITH, RIDING GRAF, FAILS IN HIS ATTEMPT TO BREAK THE BRITISH HIGH JUMP RECORD.

Record ID: 1054780

  • Title: UK: SHOWJUMPER HARVEY SMITH, RIDING GRAF, FAILS IN HIS ATTEMPT TO BREAK THE BRITISH HIGH JUMP RECORD.
  • Date: 18th December 1977
  • Summary: 1. GV Harvey \smith riding \graf, clears 7 ft 1 inch (2.16 m) at the third attempt. Spectators applaud. 0.16 2. SV Officials raise fence to 7 ft 7 ins (2.31 m) 0.22 3. GV Smith circles the arena and makes his first attempt at the record. Graf knocks down the poles. 0.32 4. GV Smith's second attempt at the record. \this time Graf refuses. 0.40 5. GV Crowd applaud Smith after he had decided that two attempts were enough, and retires. (2 shots) 0.48 6. GV PAN Smith puts Graf over the jump after the poles had been removed, and is cheered out of the arena. 1.09 The world record in showjumping is 8 ft 1 1/4 ins (2.47m) set in 1949 by Captain Larraguibel Morales of Chile on Huaso. Initials VS 17.45 SPORT: SHOWJUMPING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 1st January 1978 12:00
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  • Location: OLYMPIA, LONDON, UK
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  • Country: United Kingdom
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